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Welcome to /Hoedown! Inspired by the best part of the show “Whose Line is it Anyway”. If you don’t know what a Hoedown is, watch this: https://youtu.be/PHv2CC9Yo3U This is a place for users to post topics for a Hoedown, then for other users to respond with their own. Also check ScenesFromAHat and IrishDrinkingSong.
2024.06.01 13:12 Motormommy Has anyone looked at the div class differences on dmaorg site? Reordering the 25 Clancy posts - the last post could be Nico- 024 02MOON 25
 | I noticed something on the dmaorg site- that the posts each have different formatting according to 5 "div class" sections. The formatting really isn't that different in each class and it doesn't seem to be connected to the various file types that are posts. (this was examined using a lot of help from the dmaorg fan wiki which already had the letters typed and I copied and pasted them.) submitted by Motormommy to twentyonepilots [link] [comments] We know it's a cycle, it has happened again and again. What if the moon dates don't order as our actual dates do? There were 5 timeframes for the posts- the ones that were already there when the site was found or shortly after, the ones that were posted just before/during the trench era, the ones that were posted after the files were terminated and the site was restored (during scaled and icy) and the ones that were posted ahead of Clancy. If we reorder the 25 Clancy posts by their div classes (putting class 1 first, then 2, etc.), it puts the yellow stripe picture right before the letter it decodes. We also get the 024 02MOON 25 last. And I just realized that this letter is not signed. What if it's a bishop describing recruiting banditos? What if a bishop is realizing he's not so different from them? That he once believed he was a citizen, an escapee, an exception? Is he following the torches to find the banditos? Spreadsheet I used to organize the posts Clancy Posts when Ordered by _Divclass CLASS 1: 017 07 MOON 16 Cheetah running gif 018 07MOON 08 _note.gif written signed I’ve made it out. I feel weightless. I know that place had always held me down, but for the first time, I can feel the levity that I had hoped for. It’s been three nights now, and my breathing has changed. It’s slower, and more full. It’s like the air out here is worth taking in. I can see it back in the distance, and I’d be lying if I said that it wasn’t constantly on my mind. I wish I could turn that fear off, but maybe the further I go, the less that fear will affect me. I feel betrayed by what I assumed was home - if I ever end up back there, I won’t be able to look at it the same way. They are asleep. They’re so sure that they know the truth, and carry on throughout their day with the same meaningless tasks. They’ve forgotten to look up, and to look outward, to understand that this isn’t about ‘in there.' This is about ‘out here.’ This new world surrounds me. I used to think the walls back home were massive – these green cliffs engulf me, and place me right in the middle – Trench is quite precarious at times, and it’s easy to grow weary. But it’s real, and it’s true, and I’d much rather endure reality than to mindlessly be obedient to a life that someone else created for me. I’ve obsessed about this world for so long, that it feels more like home than anything I’ve experienced. Somehow, in this vast openness, I feel more protected than ever. The landscape feels endless, and I’ve found myself walking for hours without any true evidence of getting further down. But I’ve seen plants and colors out here that I’m not sure I’ve witnessed before. There’s a beauty in the strangest places, and the curiosity of what’s next continues to motivate me. I wonder who else is out here. If what I assumed inside is true, there’s got to be more like me. Sometimes I’ll feel a presence, or think I see something in my periphery, only to look up and see nothing. It’s just another thing that I’m afraid of that also excites me. It all just confirms all of the things that I hoped to be true for all of this time. I am out here and I am very alive. I’m sometimes scared, but always discovering something new, and I will not stop. Cover me!
17-35.4527.jpg typed signed I can’t face this page for long enough to write what I’m truly feeling. I am only wrought with more questions about what I assumed to be true, questions about what my own path is, and the question that has plagued me every night that I lie here, back in city: Did I give up? The force I saw between him and his bishop seemed tense to me, and frightening. But the memory of that exchange has had time to fester and replay in my mind long enough that I’m questioning if I even remembered it correctly. I assumed the bishop was forcefully retrieving his subject, but now I wonder if the bishop was actually trying to save him, and he refused. I stayed out there for five days after I watched it happen. I haven’t seen him since. Maybe he got away, and was still out in Trench with me. Maybe the bishop chased him down, and brought him home. Home? Did I just call this place home? After all of the endless beauty that I saw out there, am I now convincing myself that I’m actually better off within these confines? I admit, it was more difficult than I expected. Nothing could have prepared me for how much the ‘unknown’ can consume me. Vast landscapes and endless possibilities, yet coupled with endless danger. I became anxious. I became tired. I became hungry. Every step I took became harder than the last, jumping from jagged rocky step to step, or pulling myself through thick forest - it all became debilitating, and I was sure that I couldn’t go on. Keons approached as the sun rose one morning. I wasn’t scared. I was relieved. After all that he had taught me, his presence was the most comforting moment that I had in days, and I couldn’t help but be happy to see him. In true Keons fashion, he wrapped his arms around me, then put his hands under my face, looked me in the eyes, and said, “Clancy, child, let’s go home.” I’ve been here for a few weeks now, and while the routines of this world are comforting, and certainly easier than life out there, my mind keeps bouncing between the two places. Which one is home? Are the bishops protecting us, and the torches upon the hilltops dangerous? Or is it the other way around? My dreams pull me from world to world, and I feel lost in between all of it. There is still so much I do not understand.
Larger map of trench including voldsoy 024 02MOON 09 __ev-i-D__ence.jpeg typed and says signed but isn’t I'm not as scared as I used to be. Their mystery begins to fade as a method to defeat them becomes more clear. I no longer feel powerless. I can outsmart them. This new power of psychokinesis worked, and I believe it can work again. I stand here, looking down at the line where the water meets the sand - a starting line. All the while, knowing there is a finish line across the Strait. Their compass lies, but mine remains true. I've left embers of inspiration, I only hope whatever spark was left has grown to a torch, and together we create an inferno [SIGNED] - Clancy CLASS 2: 988 06MOON 18 cla_ncy-98806MOON_18_-1 jpg typed signed CLANCY_S JOURNAL The perplexities of the Dema horizon didn't occur to me until my ninth year. It was then that I began to contemplate the existential, and decide what type of impression I wanted my life to make. Naturally, to fuel my hope, I looked out upon the distance of the land that had cultivated me, only this time with a new awareness of the obstruction that my youthful ignorance had allowed me to overlook. Was it there the whole time? How had I not seen something so obvious? I am reminded of the moment daily, as the idealization directly collides with a unique hope for my own future. As a child, I looked upon Dema with wonder, today, I am wrought with frustration, as I spend each day squinting for a glimpse of the top of the looming wall that has kept us here. It was upon my ninth year that I learned that Dema wasn’t my home. This village, after all of this time, was my trap. Before I became realized, I had deep affection for Dema. There was a wonderful structure to the city that put my cares to rest. Streets and locations were dependable, and the responsibilities of the day seemed to be accomplished with minimal effort. Once a task was taught and understood, we delighted in our ability to complete our obligations timely, and felt secure in knowing tomorrow’s duties would be accomplished with the same efficiency. We all worked to represent our bishop with honor, and knew that each inhabitant of our region had a like-minded dedication to consistency. Keons embodied the spirit of this dedication. Of Dema’s nine bishops, Keons was revered as unwavering and forthright, possessing the ability to achieve focus that was rare for most on our region. We all admired him, and felt honored to be inhabitants his region. While we had heard legend of the ruthlessness of other bishops, Keons possessed a stoic demeanor unlike anyone I had ever met, and we were all proud to serve.
ba_dge jpg FPE citation 017 07MOON 17 Picture - trench - bandits 018 07 MOON 05 This entry is another letter from Clancy. The white squares on the outer edges of the image correspond to the letters "WAKE UP". It is titled _he_a_vy_.jpg typed, inverted, signed They’re asleep. The night took forever to arrive, and now we’re almost ready. We’ve studied the watchers and know that there’s no chance that we can step through unnoticed. So, instead of trying to hide ourselves, we’ll make sure that all of us are noticed. It’s been one year since the last convocation, and tomorrow’s Annual Assemblage of Glorified will be the biggest spectacle this concrete coffin of a city has seen all year. If we time it right, we’ll divert the attention of the watchers and finally take the step though. We’ve had no contact, but we’re hoping the other side will be able to find a way in. We’re not sure of the breach location, but we are willing to risk being smeared in order to find it. We know that we must go lower, and wait for the torches. They’ve never seen anything quite like this, and by morning, everything will be different. I’m terrified and excited, all at the same time. They don’t control us.
1619250308151109140519-Ø-919.jpg made me a weapon written, signed What is this thing? This device? This gift? Some sort of neurological connection or expansion. Psychokinetic weapon? This is absurd. Why was this given to me? Why am I the only one that can weild it? Was this the reason that I survived? My mind is racing as I wait here on the rocks - staring off into the darkness. Waiting for our torches to be mirrored - the signal he told me to wait for. It feels oddly familiar. Not the spikes in my hand, but the power it harnesses, I've felt it before. Is this also the source of those rumors I heard in the dark corners of the city? Legends and stories that I assumed were myth, inspired by children's nightmares - tales of what the bishops would use the bodies for. Those "honorable" citizens who acheived The Glorious Gone - referred to as available vessels. It all begins to make sense. The episodes I would have: the blood red vision, my dreams of flying, the out of body account of the rider in the river, the decaying hosts of the television show, the robed figures that commanded the doomed ship... Had we all been "seized" by the bishops using this same technique? Is this where their power comes from? Are they immortal, or just feeding off the next body, giving their hosts a brief second-life? I am in my original life, why am I available to this control? This whole time I thought I was battling my inner self. Was I actually under assault for something else? someONE else? This small eerie island has made me a weapon. We both believe that we can use it to change the momentum of this war. Now, we must return to the mainland where they should be there to recieve is. We will destroy and rebuild. Though it's been years since he last spoke with them, I hope they have not lost faith in The Torchbearers plan. But how could any of this have been planned?
009 12MOON 29 unnamed-(1).jpg d_e_ath__eat_erz Vultures on wall 011 07MOON 08 se__elf picture of kid 017 07MOON 07 017_07MOON_07 typed signed To refer to Dema as m[y] home has never felt accurate. Dema, t[o] me, has simply been the place that I’ve existed, or, the ‘slot’ they’ve put me in. I’ve heard stories abo[u]t the ide[a] of “home,” and its depiction has always seemed warm f[r]om the storyt[e]llers’s de[s]cription. [T]here was a romant[i]c ownership of the p[l]ace they inhabited that I admired, but cou[l]d never relate to. Thi[s] place, my p[l]ace, however, s[e]ems devoid of the romance and wond[e]r that the old stories tell. But somewhere between the iron order and infallible [p]recis[i]on of Dema, a hum of wo[n]der exists. It’s this quiet wonder that my mind tends to [g]ets lost in. This hope of discovery alone has birthed a new version of myself; A better version, I hope, that will find a way to experience what’s beyond these colossal walls.
I.jpg vulture gif turning head (actual dates?) 018 07MOON 06 _they_ca_ntseeFCE300.gif torch gif 022 03MOON 17 is-ø-lat-ed.jpg written, signed I haven’t had the ability to write for what seems like a lifetime. This deprivation is what weighed on me the most. Not the lack of food, or the change of scenery - they wouldn’t let me write anything down. Well, at least not without them present … I remember that day vividly. First, they let me out. Even though the hallway was still gray and drab, the new experience was a shock to my system - significantly different than usual captivity. I tried to match the rhythm of the nameless guard’s footsteps as we echoed down the long corridor. I followed close behind, as if I had no choice. Cold concrete encapsulated us and seemed to cast a spill of synthetic calmness. Obedience. We arrived at a blue door. It was an odd contrast to this concrete maze. As I went through the doorway, I found myself in another typical gray Dema room. The only difference was who was waiting for me. Four of them. Three of them were unknown to me, but one was clearly Keons. I knew his voice They proposed an idea. A television show - or whatever it was. I had no idea that I was known outside of my cell, but they informed me that I had garnered notoriety for my schemes and outbursts. They wanted to use my face for the benefit of the city. They handed me a pen - a familiar instrument. Yet, they must be present when I use it. They wanted to manage my imagination and vision. Although shackled, at least I could create again. Thus began the sessions. Everyday my cell door would open. I followed the guard down the familiar hall, through the blue door, to sit down at the desk and chair. My designated creative space - perfectly centered under their watchful eye. Sometimes three, sometimes eight - not once were all nine present. He was never there. I would have felt it if he was. At the end of the session, Keons would take my pen, gather my writings, and send me back. This went on for months. What were we creating? I wasn’t sure. A variety show with songs and set pieces? Were the rulers of this stifled city actually attempting entertainment for its people? Everything I created had to be “for the benefit of the citizens of Dema” a phrase I heard often. I didn’t question them - I was happy to be out of my cell - and putting words to paper. On the final day, I wrote the last line, I was asked to name it? The question caught me off guard. This seemed like a decision they would make. Show Day: They dressed me up and asked me to smile a poor attempt at hiding my sleep deprivation. It was all so colorful, as if compensating for the grayness of the city. It was a blur. Before I knew it, it was over, and I was back in my cell. I can only remember fragments - only blurred hallucinations of color and chaos - like a dream. The confusion of it all hangs overhead. What was it all for? … but it wasn’t over I guess it went well enough for them to request more of me. I was useful to Dema, and my creativity was exploited in new forms - They wanted me to be the entertainment at the Annual Assemblage of the Glorified - a performance at sea for the premiere citizens of Dema. I knew those weren’t the real bishops on that ship. I’ll quicken the entry - I need to keep up with the Torchbearer. During the performance, we were attacked by something in the water. I don’t know what possessed the creature to attack, but it was odd, and felt incredibly intentional. Many lost their lives in the attack, and I was thrashed through the bitter cold waves, yet somehow survived. Did this icy cold preserve me? Why was I spared? I am still so cold as I write. This place feels foreign - nothing like Trench. From the frigid sea, the air here is somehow colder than the water that surrounds it. I have a strange feeling that this island will provide answers. I must go.
__cla_im00FFFF letter, typed not signed I found a way in. A way they'll never suspect, and a way they'll never understand. Everything about our cause is so hard for them to understand, but so close to the hearts of the glowing resistance. I can reach them all. I can recruit everyone with eyes that see beyond the horizon. I can teach them. They can learn what I've learned, and fly by all of the constructs Dema has placed in front of them. We will take it back. CLASS 4: 017 02MOON 12 _ .jpg picture of yellow lines to mark “we are banditos” in next letter and numbers that spell trench 018 07MOON 01 e_sr_eve_r.jpg typed/ lines taped together signed A lifeless light surrounds us each night. Never could I imagine that something so luminous could feel so dark. It’s this glow that reminds us of the dreamless existence we’ve been sentenced to. But what I call a sentence, others accept as normalcy. How did they so efficiently eradicate the dreams within us? When the bishops instituted Vialism as mandate, they effectively reversed the hope that many arrived with. Am I the only one who realizes that we’ve been lied to? Am I the only one not afraid of the notion that the nine have hijacked our trust, and extinguished the hope that once motivated our existence? We used to close our eyes and picture a better life, now this city is full of dry eyes caught in a trance of obedience, devoid of any trace of an identity. The only significant light I’ve seen has been in the eyes of those smeared - such a curious sight, to see bright eyes strangled by the darkness of bishop hands. As their penance fades, so dims their memory of something more. My hope of something more is all I have in this rigid tomb, and I will not let it die.
2_1_2.gif inverse jumpsuit pic that matches shape of letter from 018 07moon08 022 03MOON 18 W-eap-@on.jpg image of psychokinesis / seize Keons CLASS 5: 013 01MOON 08 _ti_su_p map of dema compass missing _ti_su_p.png sev_ering__tiez 3 blanks 018 07MOON 05 _o__ut_.gif landscape 018 07MOON 18 Unalone.gif letter written and signed I can’t believe what I just saw. I'm still trying to understand. This whole time I was sure I was all alone - a single soul in this vast unknown world. But a few days into this trek, I looked down to see a figure headed the same way I was. I’ve tucked myself in these caves and crevices, trying my best to keep hidden, but he was out in the open, making his exhausted journey right down the middle of Trench. I was curious enough to follow alongside the path with him. He seemed unaffected by the fear of the unknown - the fear that tends to cripple me. To him, the terrain seemed familiar, as if he had been out here before. While lost in my curiosity, they appeared. I had heard about them back in Dema, but to my knowledge, the stories were merely myth. Ten, twenty, and then what seemed to be a hundred Banditos appeared upon the cliff, all looking down at him. He only stopped for a moment to look back up at them, and then continued on his way. His energy changed, and I wasn’t sure if he was frightened or encouraged by their ominous presence. They warned him of what was about to come. It was a blur. First seeing the figure, then the Banditos, only to now have my eyes opened to the oncoming Bishop upon a white horse drawing closer in the distance. The figure halted, and waited. When the Bishop stopped, I was sure he looked up, directly at me, so I hid deeper back in a cave. The presence of the robed rider seemed to paralyze the man. He stood still as he was approached, powerless as the outstretched hands smeared his neck. I had never seen a Bishop possess power like this. Keons had always seemed gentle and warm - this Bishop, at least out here, seemed like something else. So I ran, and I’ve been running for as long as my legs and lungs can handle. Maybe this note will be my proof that what I witnessed was not a dream. A million questions race through my brain. Am I not the only one traveling through Trench? I’ll travel a little further, and maybe I’ll get a moment of rest tonight. I may have made a mistake, leaving. This spot, between two places, is beginning to feel like an endless and hopeless abyss. At least Dema is a place that I know, and at times like this, I miss a lot about what I know. This will all be much tougher than I imagined. Nothing out here is familiar. I’ve witnessed the presence of others for the first time today, and I feel more alone than ever. Cover me.
_maniac_Clay typed letter, not signed These campfires feel like home, as I stare deeply into them, finding more and more clarity. They tried to tell us we were different. But the flame that burns inside of me is the same fire I've found on the hilltops of Trench. The Banditos have lived their rebellion, and a resistance is growing inside the concrete walls - one powerful enough to burn out all of the stale teachings, and usher in true hope and a path to actual life. We march in the morning. The revolution shall arrive with the sun. |
2024.06.01 12:22 West_Connection367 How to sleep when my boyfriend snores?
First and foremost, I should explain I am a terrible sleeper to begin with. I am easily awoken by all sounds, light, etc. I had a really bad bout of insomnia for several months at one point and was put on Ambien, but I did not like some of the side effects and I would really like to avoid going back to that. At some point my ex-husband and I started sleeping in different rooms because just him coming to bed would wake me up. This brings me to my first point: I must have my white noise machine on, as it helps block out other small noises (ie my cats, people walking by outside, and so on).
Now, my white noise machine is small and fairly portable. I have friends who snore pretty bad but when I go on vacation with them I take these super soft ear buds that plug into the machine, and I just sleep with it in the bed. It's not the best sleep, as it may sometimes hurt my ear and whenever I need to roll over I physically wake up to do so and have to move the machine to the opposite side of the pillow. But it does well for just a handful of nights of kinda bleh sleep vs no sleep at all.
As for my current situation: my now boyfriend snores, and fairly badly if he is on his back. Some nights I can just prod him and ask him to roll over and he will, and we can just go back to sleep. He falls back asleep immediately and I take a while. But some nights he very quickly ends up on his back again. According to him, this is his favorite position to sleep in.
I do sleep with the white noise when he is there, he is cool with it. However, like I said it only blocks out small noises and not loud snoring. Sleeping with the ear buds in every night is not feasible due to above mentioned reasons. I also don't like having to ask him to roll over all the time because it's not fair to him either.
For the record, I can't sleep with music or the TV on, nor can I do earplugs (I end up keeping myself awake because I can hear my own breathing too loud.) Melatonin does nothing for me (there were several nights even the ambien didn't work when I was on it,) let alone over the counter sleeping pills (even on nyquil when I'm sick I might only get 2 or 3 hours on a crappy night). I don't sleep well on the couch and only go out there on the worst nights, and he says he always feels sad when he wakes up and realizes he was keeping me up enough to move to the couch. I do not have an extra room. We currently don't live together technically but the reality is he is here 5-6 nights a week, and on occasion I stay at his place too. On the nights where we are each are at our respective homes, I feel lonely that he isn't there (and he agreed that he feels the same).
I am at a loss as what to do, I have been up all night and finally coming to reddit out of desperation. Is there something else I can try that I haven't listed above?
Side note: I know I have anxiety, and that can keep me up. The anxiety itself only gets bad when I am alone, and my brain spirals.
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Now, my white noise machine is small and fairly portable. I have friends who snore pretty bad but when I go on vacation with them I take these super soft ear buds that plug into the machine, and I just sleep with it in the bed. It's not the best sleep, as it may sometimes hurt my ear and whenever I need to roll over I physically wake up to do so and have to move the machine to the opposite side of the pillow. But it does well for just a handful of nights of kinda bleh sleep vs no sleep at all.
As for my current situation: my now boyfriend snores, and fairly badly if he is on his back. Some nights I can just prod him and ask him to roll over and he will, and we can just go back to sleep. He falls back asleep immediately and I take a while. But some nights he very quickly ends up on his back again. According to him, this is his favorite position to sleep in.
I do sleep with the white noise when he is there, he is cool with it. However, like I said it only blocks out small noises and not loud snoring. Sleeping with the ear buds in every night is not feasible due to above mentioned reasons. I also don't like having to ask him to roll over all the time because it's not fair to him either.
For the record, I can't sleep with music or the TV on, nor can I do earplugs (I end up keeping myself awake because I can hear my own breathing too loud.) Melatonin does nothing for me (there were several nights even the ambien didn't work when I was on it,) let alone over the counter sleeping pills (even on nyquil when I'm sick I might only get 2 or 3 hours on a crappy night). I don't sleep well on the couch and only go out there on the worst nights, and he says he always feels sad when he wakes up and realizes he was keeping me up enough to move to the couch. I do not have an extra room. We currently don't live together technically but the reality is he is here 5-6 nights a week, and on occasion I stay at his place too. On the nights where we are each are at our respective homes, I feel lonely that he isn't there (and he agreed that he feels the same).
I am at a loss as what to do, I have been up all night and finally coming to reddit out of desperation. Is there something else I can try that I haven't listed above?
Side note: I know I have anxiety, and that can keep me up. The anxiety itself only gets bad when I am alone, and my brain spirals.
2024.06.01 12:18 glibstergob Thinking about the protests logically…
Regardless of what your views on the protesters are, the University (allegedly) sat at the table with student representatives of the encampment and (in their own words) genuinely considered the demands of the protestors in good faith, regardless of what the result was.
In what other situation does this happen besides forcing the University’s hand by causing a disruption that could not be ignored?
If the protestors just walked around campus for a couple hours chanting their demands, what incentive does the University have to actually listen?
This post is less for those that oppose the protestors and more for the supposed supporters that condemn the methodologies of the protesters or appeal to authority by highlighting the illegality of the protest. That’s the point. Yes there were definitely flaws with the protest at times but let’s not pretend that the University would’ve given them a fair listen in any other instance than a scenario where they had no choice.
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In what other situation does this happen besides forcing the University’s hand by causing a disruption that could not be ignored?
If the protestors just walked around campus for a couple hours chanting their demands, what incentive does the University have to actually listen?
This post is less for those that oppose the protestors and more for the supposed supporters that condemn the methodologies of the protesters or appeal to authority by highlighting the illegality of the protest. That’s the point. Yes there were definitely flaws with the protest at times but let’s not pretend that the University would’ve given them a fair listen in any other instance than a scenario where they had no choice.
2024.06.01 11:52 jetstreamer2 [ROLEPLAY] The Statue of Victory
Following the fall of the Caliphate and the liberation of Constantinople, the Second Roman Republic emerged victorious, and in commemoration of this pivotal triumph, a magnificent Statue of Victory was erected in the Port of Rhodes, where the legendary Colossus of Rhodes once stood.
Excerpt from: An Unabridged History of Rome, Chapter 20 of 100: The First Fifty Years of the Second Republic, Page 370
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The Battle for the Forum of Constantine
The century from Rhodes, a unit of hardened soldiers, found themselves at the heart of the decisive battle for Constantinople. Their mission: to secure the Blue Mosque, a critical strategic objective. As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting long shadows over the ancient city, the soldiers prepared for what would become a grueling and relentless fight.
"Advance with caution," Evocatus Antonius barked, his voice steady despite the chaos. The streets of Constantinople echoed with the sounds of gunfire and explosions as the Rhodian soldiers moved through the narrow alleys, their senses heightened and nerves on edge. The Caliphate fighters, well-entrenched and determined, fought back fiercely, making every inch of progress a hard-won victory. They had already survived seven suicide bombing attempts today.
As they approached the Blue Mosque, the resistance intensified. Machine gun nests and sniper positions forced the Rhodian soldiers to take cover behind crumbling walls and abandoned vehicles. The air was thick with the acrid smell of vaporized civilians and the constant rattle of automatic fire.
"Move! Move! Move!" Tesserarius Lucius urged, leading a squad through a hail of bullets. They darted from cover to cover, returning fire whenever possible. Legionary Memmio, the youngest in the unit, was hit and fell to the ground. "Medic!" Lucius shouted, pulling Memmio to safety as the medic worked frantically to stabilize him.
Despite the casualties, they pushed on. The Blue Mosque was within sight, but as they crossed an open square, a hidden IED detonated, sending shrapnel in all directions. Several soldiers were thrown to the ground, and the screams of the injured filled the air. Evoactus Antonius, bleeding from a gash on his forehead, rallied his men. "We’re not stopping now! For the Republic!"
Reaching the Forum of Constantine, they set up a defensive perimeter. The ancient square, once a symbol of the gravitas of the empire of old, once again served as a battleground as it had 600 years ago when the ancestors of the Caliphate finally breached the Theodosian Walls. The Caliphate fighters, realizing the strategic importance of the Forum, launched a relentless assault. Waves of enemy troops surged forward, attempting to break the Rhodian lines.
"Hold your ground!" Decurion Marcus shouted, firing his Scorpio Heavy Cannon with an ever smaller supply of programmable airburst rounds. The century from Rhodes fought valiantly, their training and camaraderie evident in every coordinated move. But the sheer number of enemy fighters was overwhelming. Ammunition dwindled, and the cries of the wounded filled the air.
As hope began to wane, a powerful explosion rocked the ground, sending debris flying. When the dust settled, a remarkable sight was revealed: a statue of Victoria, the ancient Roman goddess of victory, uncovered by the blast. The soldiers, desperate and weary, took this as a sign.
"Victoria!" Tesserarius Lucius cried out, dropping to one knee in reverence. The others followed suit, paying homage to the goddess in a spontaneous and heartfelt prayer. "Grant us your favor and deliver us from this peril."
The enemy assault grew fiercer. The Caliphate fighters, emboldened by their numerical superiority, pressed the attack. The Rhodian soldiers, outnumbered and running low on ammunition, fought with every ounce of strength they had left. Hand-to-hand combat broke out as the enemy breached the perimeter of the Forum. Desperation set in as the defenders realized they were on the brink of being overrun.
Legionary Alexios, using his last grenade, managed to time his throw to detonate above a suicide bomber who took another 15 enemy soldiers with him, buying precious seconds for his comrades. But the situation was dire. Evocatus Antonius, clutching a makeshift bandage over a bullet wound in his side, ordered the last stand. "We fight to the end! For Rome!"
Just as the last of their ammunition was spent, the distinctive roar of Argentavis tiltrotors filled the sky. Friendly air support had finally arrived. The massive aircraft unleashed a barrage of firepower on the enemy positions, forcing the Caliphate fighters to pull back to cover. The tiltrotors hovered above the Forum, lowering ropes and medevac stretchers to evacuate the wounded and bring in fresh troops and supplies.
The arrival of reinforcements was nothing short of miraculous. The Rhodian soldiers, invigorated by the sight of their comrades descending from the skies, as if Victoria herself had arrived, launched a counteroffensive. With renewed strength and the tide turning in their favor, they pressed the attack, driving the enemy back and securing the Forum. The day was won, and their heroic stand would become legendary.
Erecting the Statue
In the aftermath of the war, the bravery and dedication of the Rhodian century were celebrated throughout the Second Roman Republic. Donations poured in from citizens moved by their courage, and a sense of renewed Roman citizenship flourished. The soldiers of Rhodes, honored and humbled by the support, decided to use the funds to build a monument to their victory and the divine favor they believed had saved them.
The Statue of Victory, a colossal representation of Victoria, was erected in the Port of Rhodes. Standing where the Old Colossus of Rhodes once welcomed travelers, this new monument symbolizes the resilience and unity of the Roman people. It serves as a reminder of shared history and enduring spirit that carried them through the darkest times to emerge victorious once more.
In the shadow of this grand statue, the citizens of Rhodes and visitors from across the Republic found inspiration and pride, knowing that the spirit of Victory and the legacy of their ancestors continued to guide and protect them.
It was also equipped with an Asterion Medium Range Missile Defense System housed in the head of the monument as well as two Jove Laser Systems, one for each eye, naturally.
2024.06.01 11:35 Vast-Passenger1126 [Discussion] Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey Chapters 48-Epilogue (The Expanse Book #1) Leviathan Wakes
When you're a cop, you don't have the luxury of feeling things. You have to do the job.
Welcome Earthers to our final discussion of Leviathan Wakes. And what an ending it was! If you want to catch up on any previous discussions, you can find the schedule here and marginalia here. Otherwise let's dive in!
Chapter 48: Miller – Miller and crew arrive at Eros. Protogen’s involvement with the station has become public knowledge (and surprisingly it wasn’t Holden that told everyone) which has shifted the blame to the corporation and put the Earth-Mars war on hold. Miller and the OPA team strategically place fusion bombs on Eros and their return transport arrives, but Miller tells Diogo he’s staying behind. The next day, he heads to the outside of Eros and awaits the Nauvoo’s impact, with the Eros’ feed and his imaginary Julie keeping him company. But just before the collision, Eros shouts, “Don’t you fucking touch me!” and dodges out of the way!
Chapter 49: Holden – Understandably, everyone on the Rocinante is like WTF just happened!? Naomi explains that it can’t be magic because whatever Eros just did to move seven thousand trillion tons of rock wasted energy which they can see. So you know, just really fucking advanced science, but not magic! Eros then disappears off the radar but continues to move towards Earth at high speed. Holden and the UNN Escort Vessel agree to temporarily put their differences aside and chase Eros. Holden calls Fred and says this is a great opportunity to get everyone to work together before they all turn into vomit zombies. Fred tells Holden to call Miller and get the remote detonation codes to the bombs on Eros to maybe buy them some time.
Chapter 50: Miller – Miller tells Holden he’s still on Eros, somehow not feeling the insane movement and just hanging out upside down like a bat. Of course Holden wants to rescue Miller, but he’s like, “No bro, you get why I’m here,” and Holden drops it. Miller decides the best bet is to take the fusion bombs inside Eros to whatever is controlling it. Naomi sets him up a dead’s man switch, so now Miller has to somehow drag these heavy ass bombs around without ever lifting his finger off a button for more than 5 seconds. Miller tells Holden his last wish is to find Julie’s parents and figure out their link to Protogen, and then heads into Eros.
Chapter 51: Holden – Eros continues to travel faster and faster, and it is impossible for the Rocinante to keep up without causing serious physical damage or killing everyone on board. Fred calls and says that Earth has forgiven him after learning that he had nothing to do with Eros and, in fact, Protogen hated him. Holden doesn’t have the patience to congratulate Fred on his personal gains since his organs are about to explode. Fred says that Earth is going to launch its entire nuclear arsenal at Eros, but needs the Rocinante to bounce a laser off it so they can use its targeting system to guide their missiles. This means the crew would need to put the ship on autopilot and sacrifice themselves, which Holden isn’t super keen to do. He tells Fred he’ll think about it, but then immediately stops the ship because he refuses to let his crew (especially Naomi) die. Naomi heard everything Fred said and isn’t pleased with Holden’s decision. But no fear, he has a back-up plan! If they turn back on the OPA freighters attached to Eros, they can use their transponders to track Eros. The nukes are successfully launched and everyone’s happy until Miller calls sand says there’s a problem.
Chapter 52: Miller – It’s a struggle, but Miller manages to get into Eros which is now filled with human corpse crust and luminescent dots in the air. He realizes that to find whatever is powering the ‘ship’, he should use temperature to guide him to the hot spot. As he progresses deeper, he hears Eros talk about taking the ‘razor back’ and Miller has the biggest lightbulb moment – Julie is alive and she’s the brain of the protomolecule!
Chapter 53: Holden – Miller tells Holden to check all his vitals to clear that he’s not physically going crazy before dropping the bomb that Julie is the one driving Eros to Earth. He argues that the original protomolecule was meant to infect single-celled organisms. It is now being forced to improvise as it’s infected much more complex creatures so is using Julie and her brain as a template. Miller doesn’t think the protomolecule wants to wipe out humanity, since humans didn’t even exist when it was first launched, so if he can only speak to Julie (or what’s left of her), he can convince her to take Eros away from Earth. He agrees that if he can’t get through to her with words, he’ll use the bomb and blow up Eros, but he needs Holden to buy him some time. Naomi comes up with a plan to deflect the missiles in an arc shape and trick the UNN to not realizing what’s happening. They pitch their plan to Fred who immediately rejects it, but Holden offers him the protomolecule sample in exchange which is too good to pass up. Holden tells Miller the plan is on and that they should take Eros to Venus.
Chapter 54: Miller – Miller is looking for Julie while trying not to go insane. Visions of Holden, Havelock and Muss guide him to the backup environment control room where he finds Julie’s body. He wakes her up, introduces himself and explains the situation. Miller removes his suit helmet, letting the protomolecule infect him, and convinces Julie to head to Venus.
Chapter 55: Holden – Holden wakes up from a nightmare to a call from the UNN ship. They’ve learned about the deflected missiles and the Rocinante is in big trouble. McBride tells Holden he’s got ten minutes to deactivate the false transponders or else she’s shooting them down. Before a battle can break out, Eros reappears on the radar and everyone can see it’s heading away from Earth. It crashes into Venus, saving all of humanity from becoming vomit zombies (for now at least).
Epilogue: Fred – After the Eros crash, tensions are still high among Earth, Mars and the Belt. Fred is about to deliver a speech with the aim to establish peace between all parties. The protomolecule is NOT dead things are happening on Venus, like two kilomtere high crystal towers. So Fred’s hidden sample is the best option for finding a solution to protect humanity. Holden appears and asks if Fred can help him and his crew get amnesty and keep the Rocinante. He also wants Fred to talk about the real Miller and not turn him into a heroic Belter icon. Before his speech, Fred is tempted to go Holden’s way but ultimately labels it a “noble way to fail,” and carries on with his original plan, using Miller’s sacrifice as a tool to try and unite humanity.
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Welcome Earthers to our final discussion of Leviathan Wakes. And what an ending it was! If you want to catch up on any previous discussions, you can find the schedule here and marginalia here. Otherwise let's dive in!
Chapter 48: Miller – Miller and crew arrive at Eros. Protogen’s involvement with the station has become public knowledge (and surprisingly it wasn’t Holden that told everyone) which has shifted the blame to the corporation and put the Earth-Mars war on hold. Miller and the OPA team strategically place fusion bombs on Eros and their return transport arrives, but Miller tells Diogo he’s staying behind. The next day, he heads to the outside of Eros and awaits the Nauvoo’s impact, with the Eros’ feed and his imaginary Julie keeping him company. But just before the collision, Eros shouts, “Don’t you fucking touch me!” and dodges out of the way!
Chapter 49: Holden – Understandably, everyone on the Rocinante is like WTF just happened!? Naomi explains that it can’t be magic because whatever Eros just did to move seven thousand trillion tons of rock wasted energy which they can see. So you know, just really fucking advanced science, but not magic! Eros then disappears off the radar but continues to move towards Earth at high speed. Holden and the UNN Escort Vessel agree to temporarily put their differences aside and chase Eros. Holden calls Fred and says this is a great opportunity to get everyone to work together before they all turn into vomit zombies. Fred tells Holden to call Miller and get the remote detonation codes to the bombs on Eros to maybe buy them some time.
Chapter 50: Miller – Miller tells Holden he’s still on Eros, somehow not feeling the insane movement and just hanging out upside down like a bat. Of course Holden wants to rescue Miller, but he’s like, “No bro, you get why I’m here,” and Holden drops it. Miller decides the best bet is to take the fusion bombs inside Eros to whatever is controlling it. Naomi sets him up a dead’s man switch, so now Miller has to somehow drag these heavy ass bombs around without ever lifting his finger off a button for more than 5 seconds. Miller tells Holden his last wish is to find Julie’s parents and figure out their link to Protogen, and then heads into Eros.
Chapter 51: Holden – Eros continues to travel faster and faster, and it is impossible for the Rocinante to keep up without causing serious physical damage or killing everyone on board. Fred calls and says that Earth has forgiven him after learning that he had nothing to do with Eros and, in fact, Protogen hated him. Holden doesn’t have the patience to congratulate Fred on his personal gains since his organs are about to explode. Fred says that Earth is going to launch its entire nuclear arsenal at Eros, but needs the Rocinante to bounce a laser off it so they can use its targeting system to guide their missiles. This means the crew would need to put the ship on autopilot and sacrifice themselves, which Holden isn’t super keen to do. He tells Fred he’ll think about it, but then immediately stops the ship because he refuses to let his crew (especially Naomi) die. Naomi heard everything Fred said and isn’t pleased with Holden’s decision. But no fear, he has a back-up plan! If they turn back on the OPA freighters attached to Eros, they can use their transponders to track Eros. The nukes are successfully launched and everyone’s happy until Miller calls sand says there’s a problem.
Chapter 52: Miller – It’s a struggle, but Miller manages to get into Eros which is now filled with human corpse crust and luminescent dots in the air. He realizes that to find whatever is powering the ‘ship’, he should use temperature to guide him to the hot spot. As he progresses deeper, he hears Eros talk about taking the ‘razor back’ and Miller has the biggest lightbulb moment – Julie is alive and she’s the brain of the protomolecule!
Chapter 53: Holden – Miller tells Holden to check all his vitals to clear that he’s not physically going crazy before dropping the bomb that Julie is the one driving Eros to Earth. He argues that the original protomolecule was meant to infect single-celled organisms. It is now being forced to improvise as it’s infected much more complex creatures so is using Julie and her brain as a template. Miller doesn’t think the protomolecule wants to wipe out humanity, since humans didn’t even exist when it was first launched, so if he can only speak to Julie (or what’s left of her), he can convince her to take Eros away from Earth. He agrees that if he can’t get through to her with words, he’ll use the bomb and blow up Eros, but he needs Holden to buy him some time. Naomi comes up with a plan to deflect the missiles in an arc shape and trick the UNN to not realizing what’s happening. They pitch their plan to Fred who immediately rejects it, but Holden offers him the protomolecule sample in exchange which is too good to pass up. Holden tells Miller the plan is on and that they should take Eros to Venus.
Chapter 54: Miller – Miller is looking for Julie while trying not to go insane. Visions of Holden, Havelock and Muss guide him to the backup environment control room where he finds Julie’s body. He wakes her up, introduces himself and explains the situation. Miller removes his suit helmet, letting the protomolecule infect him, and convinces Julie to head to Venus.
Chapter 55: Holden – Holden wakes up from a nightmare to a call from the UNN ship. They’ve learned about the deflected missiles and the Rocinante is in big trouble. McBride tells Holden he’s got ten minutes to deactivate the false transponders or else she’s shooting them down. Before a battle can break out, Eros reappears on the radar and everyone can see it’s heading away from Earth. It crashes into Venus, saving all of humanity from becoming vomit zombies (for now at least).
Epilogue: Fred – After the Eros crash, tensions are still high among Earth, Mars and the Belt. Fred is about to deliver a speech with the aim to establish peace between all parties. The protomolecule is NOT dead things are happening on Venus, like two kilomtere high crystal towers. So Fred’s hidden sample is the best option for finding a solution to protect humanity. Holden appears and asks if Fred can help him and his crew get amnesty and keep the Rocinante. He also wants Fred to talk about the real Miller and not turn him into a heroic Belter icon. Before his speech, Fred is tempted to go Holden’s way but ultimately labels it a “noble way to fail,” and carries on with his original plan, using Miller’s sacrifice as a tool to try and unite humanity.
2024.06.01 11:25 moxieme2022 If you get so lucky as to get placed at IES Abastos...
I just finished my first (and only) Aux year at IES Abastos in Ciudad Valencia and am headed back to the US in a week and at that time I plan on disconnecting from all the Aux groups and moving on with my life, but before I go I wanted to leave a message here for any future Aux who may search for this school name when they get their placement...you are so damn lucky! Congratulations! (and if you want any additional information please respond to this post and I'll try to keep an eye out for notifications this summer).
It's an amazingly beautiful building right in the heart (!!!) of Valencia city, staffed with friendly and talented teachers and staff. It is an IES (high school) and an FP (vocational school--Computer (IT, web design, AI) and Business tracks. The teachers I worked with (in all of the above programs) all spoke excellent English. The administration is easy going but often super busy so if they forget to give you a printing card or computer login or bathroom key, just remind them ;-)and generous re scheduling, etc. They asked my preferred hours and I only worked 3 days (16 hours) a week, Tuesday-Thursday! 4 day weekends! Not promising they can do the same for you, but if they can they will. But the compromise for my compact schedule was that every class was a different group and/or subject, which was a lot to keep track of initially, prep-wise, but I learned you can often reuse/adapt the same lesson across different groups. I came to know the faces but alas not the names of the approx 200 students I saw each week.
The students were never disrespectful (not intentionally anyway--they ARE mostly adolescents though, so not paying attention or acting like, well, hormonal teens, is par for the course). There's a lot of projector use in the classrooms versus board work. Often the teachers will want you to come up with your own lesson plans (based on what they are covering or simply whatever you want) and yes, it can eat up several hours of your off time if you want to have fun with it (but it makes your work week so much more rewarding) but if occasionally you can't, they understand. You can always play pictionary or hangman or 20 questions or some other easily adapted game at a moments notice--I highly recommend building that skill. For example: oh, we are doing past tense vocabulary today and you want me to do something for 15 minutes at the end? I draw a tic tac toe grid on the board, quickly divide the class into teams (competition is popular!) and have one rep from each team come to the board and who ever can write the past tense of a particular word first gets to put their X or 0 in first, before the other team. Repeat until one team wins 3 in a row. Easy peasey.
FYI, I have posted some of the most rewarding lessons I did with my classes on the FB Auxiliary Secondary lesson planning (Madrid) group and I used several that others had posted there too. Check it out. No reason to reinvent the wheel.
This year the Valencia payments were consistently on time (around the 10th of the month, give or take a day, starting in November if you got your bank info submitted asap--I recommend N26 online bank). Housing can be competitive and spendy, expect to spend at LEAST 400 euros for a room (not an entire apartment) if you want to live relatively close to the school and it may take you awhile to find one (I have no personal advice to offer re: that as I used my savings to rent an adorable but expensive apartment to live on my own and host guests from home, I just know what other Auxes told me). Getting your TIE/toma de huellas appt will be a nightmare but just grin and bear it. The metro and bus system in the city is wonderful and I got a valenbici subscription vs purchasing a bike and made ample use of it and the protected bike lanes (there's a protected lane that goes directly to a valenbici bike station in front of the school!). There are several local Valencia Aux Whatsapp groups you should join (for info, Auxiliaries VLC 2022; for fun/meet ups, Valencian Kids) as well as local Whatsapp hiking groups (if you are so inclined to join amazing local hikes on the weekend).
Not gonna give a travel review of Valencia itself but suffice to say it is AMAZING! And Fallas! Oh.My.God. The first two weeks of March are INSANE! Enjoy!
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It's an amazingly beautiful building right in the heart (!!!) of Valencia city, staffed with friendly and talented teachers and staff. It is an IES (high school) and an FP (vocational school--Computer (IT, web design, AI) and Business tracks. The teachers I worked with (in all of the above programs) all spoke excellent English. The administration is easy going but often super busy so if they forget to give you a printing card or computer login or bathroom key, just remind them ;-)and generous re scheduling, etc. They asked my preferred hours and I only worked 3 days (16 hours) a week, Tuesday-Thursday! 4 day weekends! Not promising they can do the same for you, but if they can they will. But the compromise for my compact schedule was that every class was a different group and/or subject, which was a lot to keep track of initially, prep-wise, but I learned you can often reuse/adapt the same lesson across different groups. I came to know the faces but alas not the names of the approx 200 students I saw each week.
The students were never disrespectful (not intentionally anyway--they ARE mostly adolescents though, so not paying attention or acting like, well, hormonal teens, is par for the course). There's a lot of projector use in the classrooms versus board work. Often the teachers will want you to come up with your own lesson plans (based on what they are covering or simply whatever you want) and yes, it can eat up several hours of your off time if you want to have fun with it (but it makes your work week so much more rewarding) but if occasionally you can't, they understand. You can always play pictionary or hangman or 20 questions or some other easily adapted game at a moments notice--I highly recommend building that skill. For example: oh, we are doing past tense vocabulary today and you want me to do something for 15 minutes at the end? I draw a tic tac toe grid on the board, quickly divide the class into teams (competition is popular!) and have one rep from each team come to the board and who ever can write the past tense of a particular word first gets to put their X or 0 in first, before the other team. Repeat until one team wins 3 in a row. Easy peasey.
FYI, I have posted some of the most rewarding lessons I did with my classes on the FB Auxiliary Secondary lesson planning (Madrid) group and I used several that others had posted there too. Check it out. No reason to reinvent the wheel.
This year the Valencia payments were consistently on time (around the 10th of the month, give or take a day, starting in November if you got your bank info submitted asap--I recommend N26 online bank). Housing can be competitive and spendy, expect to spend at LEAST 400 euros for a room (not an entire apartment) if you want to live relatively close to the school and it may take you awhile to find one (I have no personal advice to offer re: that as I used my savings to rent an adorable but expensive apartment to live on my own and host guests from home, I just know what other Auxes told me). Getting your TIE/toma de huellas appt will be a nightmare but just grin and bear it. The metro and bus system in the city is wonderful and I got a valenbici subscription vs purchasing a bike and made ample use of it and the protected bike lanes (there's a protected lane that goes directly to a valenbici bike station in front of the school!). There are several local Valencia Aux Whatsapp groups you should join (for info, Auxiliaries VLC 2022; for fun/meet ups, Valencian Kids) as well as local Whatsapp hiking groups (if you are so inclined to join amazing local hikes on the weekend).
Not gonna give a travel review of Valencia itself but suffice to say it is AMAZING! And Fallas! Oh.My.God. The first two weeks of March are INSANE! Enjoy!
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2024.06.01 10:32 jagrmullet77 Change of Subject from Playoff talk. Curious on Peoples Thoughts on Retaining Vinny, Stecher, Carrick, and Perry etc Next Season?
Change of subject from the cup talk. Figured it would be fun to discuss next year for big men on the team.
So I'm a huge fan of Vinny Desharnais and don't want us to lose him to UFA. I just love the real life friendship he has with Skinner and after watching a lot of behind the scenes videos on my Oilers+ subscription I truly think he's an absolute amazing guy and a loved team member for our team. He has this likeable factor that I believe we sadly lost when we couldn't retain Kostin so it would be a shame to lose Vinny too.
Now besides just his likeability, we cannot get smaller for next year either. This has happened in the past where we had no big men and guys to stick up for Mcdavid and be tough in our zone etc.I pray his agent doesn't go crazy and ask for a huge pay raise but also with him recently benched I'm curious on your thoughts. And we haven't even talked about Carrick, Perry and Stecher for next year. Not sure if they're rentals or the plans. Would you guys try to retain any of them as well? Be nice to have a net pest and thug up front and a big guy still for the back end if possible ie. Vinny.
The Oilers have needed a Ryan Reeves, Lucic, Perry, Pat Maroon type guy again for a long time (NOTE I'm just using those names as examples not that we directly want those specific guys right now) and I assume it's also probably a good chance we won't be keeping Perry whether he retires or he's just a rental for this year?
So with Vinny's contract up, Broberg probably moving up full time to the main roster, and not sure what we're doing with Stecher, Perry(retiring?) and Carrick, your guys thoughts on Vinny? He's our only big tough Dman really so I hope we can retain. Also if possible, another possible tough guy acquisition on our team next year if by chance the scenario is we don't retain Perry, Stecher and Carrick as well?
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So I'm a huge fan of Vinny Desharnais and don't want us to lose him to UFA. I just love the real life friendship he has with Skinner and after watching a lot of behind the scenes videos on my Oilers+ subscription I truly think he's an absolute amazing guy and a loved team member for our team. He has this likeable factor that I believe we sadly lost when we couldn't retain Kostin so it would be a shame to lose Vinny too.
Now besides just his likeability, we cannot get smaller for next year either. This has happened in the past where we had no big men and guys to stick up for Mcdavid and be tough in our zone etc.I pray his agent doesn't go crazy and ask for a huge pay raise but also with him recently benched I'm curious on your thoughts. And we haven't even talked about Carrick, Perry and Stecher for next year. Not sure if they're rentals or the plans. Would you guys try to retain any of them as well? Be nice to have a net pest and thug up front and a big guy still for the back end if possible ie. Vinny.
The Oilers have needed a Ryan Reeves, Lucic, Perry, Pat Maroon type guy again for a long time (NOTE I'm just using those names as examples not that we directly want those specific guys right now) and I assume it's also probably a good chance we won't be keeping Perry whether he retires or he's just a rental for this year?
So with Vinny's contract up, Broberg probably moving up full time to the main roster, and not sure what we're doing with Stecher, Perry(retiring?) and Carrick, your guys thoughts on Vinny? He's our only big tough Dman really so I hope we can retain. Also if possible, another possible tough guy acquisition on our team next year if by chance the scenario is we don't retain Perry, Stecher and Carrick as well?
2024.06.01 09:57 Informal_Patience821 Refuting the "Addressing the false claims of Dr. Exion" posts - Response to first post
In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Peace be to you all.
I won't resort to personal attacks and baseless claims (much like he does), and I will jump straight ahead to answering his objections.
Firstly, in Biblical Hebrew, verb forms such as Qal and Piel (often referred to as Polel in some grammatical traditions) are distinguished by their specific diacritic markings (i.e., vowel points and consonantal diacritics). Since I believe that the Masoretes distorted the Old Testament by adding these diacritics to reach a deviant interpretation, I do not consider them at all. I read the Old Testament without any diacritics. This is something he has yet to understand, perhaps because he believes that the Old Testament was revealed with diacritic markings—I don't know.
He later argues that the ancient Christian manuscripts (such as the Codex Sinaiticus, Septuagint, etc.) must agree with my claims and not with the Masoretic renderings of the Hebrew text, a conclusion he bases on thin air. I ask: Why is that so? Can you give us one good reason for this conclusion? You can't! He says this only because he considers these Christian manuscripts as divinely revealed criteria and translations. In contrast, I (and many others) see them as ancient interpretations of the original Hebrew text, which are very erroneous. This is especially true considering that rabbis themselves claim these scholars and translators failed to understand every Hebrew idiom in the book. They took everything literally and thus deviated from the intended meaning throughout their translations. These are the translations he claims must agree with my understanding.
The Masoretes could even have been influenced by Christians and their manuscripts, leading them to render some verses erroneously, whether knowingly or unknowingly—we can't be certain. However, I believe it wasn't unknowingly, and I have very good reasons for holding this opinion.
His arguments in his objections are all flawed and fallacious.
In other words, both Qal and Polel essentially mean the same thing.
This following excerpt is from my original post about this, the post he is "refuting":
Excerpt from the post in question:
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Isaiah 53:8, traditional translation:
"From imprisonment and from judgment he is taken, and his generation who shall tell? For he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people, a plague befell them."
The original verse (without diacritics):
מעצר וממשפט לקח ואת־דורו מי ישוחח כי נגזר מארץ חיים מפשע עמי נגע למו:
My translation:
"He was taken from arrest and trial, and as for his generation, who will argue that he was cut off from the land of the living [i.e. killed] for the sin of my people, a plague befell them."
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In this verse, God is explicitly denying the doctrine of the Original Sin, stating that those who argue, speak, put forth, or ponder that Jesus was killed for the sins of His (God's) people are cursed (or afflicted by a plague).
It is crystal clear! He is just in denial because it contradicts his Pauline doctrine. Thus, he has fixated on this specific word, insisting it is (without a shadow of a doubt) in the Polel form (because his Pauline forefathers said so), and claims that Exion has made a grave error. Incredible, indeed. What a rebuttal!
Let's see if the Polel form does anything to save him:
1. Meditate:
2. Consider:
3. Put forth thoughts:
This is what I have to deal with. He is correcting my interpretation by yet again confirming it and he doesn't even realize it. He refuses to accept that the Old Testament completely refutes this absurd Pauline doctrine that God sent His "son" to the earth to kill him and forgive mankind. He can't understand that the Old Testament aligns with the Quran, calling them cursed. I have explained this to him several times, but to no avail. According to him, the early Christians "meditated" about Jesus' "abode." He raises the same objection in every comment he makes on every future post I do, as if I haven't just refuted him using the Bible, dictionaries, and other sources. In one ear and out the other. The only reason I'm even writing this response is to make you guys realize how unknowledgeable this man really is about the Bible and the Hebrew language. But he is good at making it look like he knows a thing or two by using fancy words and elaborations that make no sense at all.
I believe (if I remember correctly) that he translates it as:
Who would describe Jesus abode? What?! With all due respect, but that makes no sense at all! It makes no sense contextually nor logically.
This is how another Jewish translation has it:
The original phrase is: "ואת־דורו מי ישוחח"
Let me break it down for you:
New Living Translation Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants...
New International Version By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested?...
King James Bible He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation?...
Some others got the first part accurate but still misinterpreted the last part of the verse, as it claims that they are cursed. God forbid, they are the ones who are cursed, for they consider Jesus to be the cursed one:
English Standard Version By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
They applied the "curse/plague" to Jesus (which they translate as "stricken," even though Biblically it is generally understood to be a plague/curse) instead of applying it to those "who considered" (i.e., the Pauline Christians). The Hebrew verse uses a plural word, indicating that it was intended for those people who would put forth this claim. They all refuse to accept the fact that God is explicitly and literally stating that they are affected by a plague for their erroneous claim about Jesus.
Let's quickly refute them too:
A plague to whom? TO THEM! To the people who put forth this Pauline doctrine, the ones who argued, said, or considered this absurdity. Absolutely not to the one they believed to be cut off for the sin of God's people, namely Jesus, God's prophet, Messiah, His Word, and a spirit from Him.
But this is not surprising to anyone; it is expected, because their savior Paul also considered the blessed Messiah Jesus to be a curse:
He goes on to say that I quoted from a fictitious source, which is not true at all. I simply didn’t bother looking through my entire library to find a quote I mistakenly mis-referenced, mainly because the quote turned out to be quite irrelevant, and I don’t waste my time like that. Much of what he initiated his "rebuttal" with is equally misunderstood by him, and I have responded to each and every objection in my older posts (in the comment sections where he was "eXpOsInG" me). I picked the first thing and refuted it here for you just to show how ignorant he really is and how he is either living a lie or lying to others.
So, I will not bother to refute every single point of the old stuff that I’ve already conclusively answered. It's a waste of time. Let’s move on to his objections to my latest posts, because that is what this is all about in reality.
"Stone to a stone" is not a Hebrew idiom, and neither is the word "upon" there in Hebrew. He doesn't know Hebrew, had he known Hebrew, he would never have "eXpOsEd" this because it just went to show that he doesn't know the language at all.
The Hebrew word "שום" (shum) in this context is derived from the root ש-ו-ם, which means "to place" or "to put." It appears here as an infinitive construct, which is often used to convey the act of doing something, similar to the English "-ing" form. In this sentence, "שום" is functioning as a gerund, which is a verbal noun. It translates to "placing" or "putting" in English. Therefore, "שום־אבן" means "placing a stone" or "putting a stone."
As for the next word, i.e. "stone" (אבן), in Hebrew, nouns have gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). "אבן" is a feminine singular noun. When used in the phrase "שום־אבן" (placing a stone), "אבן" functions as the direct object of the action described by the infinitive construct "שום" (placing).
The next word is אל: This is taken as a preposition according to them, and it generally means "to" or "toward," and never "upon." It is used to indicate direction or movement towards something. While the following word is, again, a stone "אבן."
So if we're going with their interpretation, while being literal, as we should because it is not an idiom, it accurately translates to:
"Before placing a stone to a stone" or "before placing stone to stone"
Which makes very little sense, if any. Why wouldn't God say "Before placing stone upon stone" or "Stones upon stones" or "before placing a stone upon a stone"? Why did He use a singular word for "stone"? Because it is speaking about a one stone, the stone that God placed in Zion:
Classical Hebrew dictionary:
And:
Let's see if any of these help him:
To get a more coherent translation, one that makes sense both contextually and linguistically, we need to consider "El" as "God":
He is just in denial here as well. It is quite obvious that God is talking about placing a stone in the Temple of God, not about placing a stone towards a stone (whatever that means). Biblically, it is known that Jacob placed a stone in the House of God in Harran, which I have also proven to be located in the vicinity of Mecca, using 1st-century CE atlases by giants in geography such as Pomponius Mela, Pliny, and others.
He writes:
In the phrase "שום־אבן אל־אבן" (placing a stone as God's stone), the context and the nouns' arrangement provide the possessive meaning without requiring additional grammatical changes. "אל־אבן" can be understood as "God's stone" even though it is not in the formal construct state. This is something he doesn't know because, well, who knows why. I have my speculations, but I will refrain from personal attacks.
He says:
This is why Jacob, upon waking from his prophetic dream, never built the House of God. (Yes, Jacob was a prophet, but Christian scholars throughout history didn't recognize this and thought he was merely a patriarch.) Instead, he only placed a stone as its cornerstone and named it "The House of God":
7th verse states:
Haggai 2:7
Let me break it down for you:
But if we consider "Chemdat" as a cognate of "Ahmad," as a proper noun referring to Ahmad the prophet (the only heathen prophet known today), it suddenly becomes a very coherent verse that makes much sense. The heathens will be shaken, and they will come. Then, He specifies by saying: Chemdat of all the heathens, and continues with the rest of the verse.
The phrase "הגוים" (ha-goyim) translates as "the heathens," which supports the interpretation that "Chemdat" is a proper noun referring to a significant heathen person anticipated to come. God is going to shake all the heathens, and they will come. Then He specifies who would come: "Chemdat of all the heathens (will come)." He then says He will fill this house, which they saw as nothing, with glory. The house already exists; Chemdat of all nations was just about to come, and God would fill this house with glory again. And, of course, the stone Jacob laid in Genesis 28—the same stone that Jesus referred to in Matthew 21:
Going back to Haggai 2, the 18th verse also confirms that the Temple already was there:
Nevertheless, he is right about one thing regarding this chapter: it does not mention the new moon to new moon and the end of the Sabbath—that was in Isaiah 66. My mistake. But the prophecy is still valid. The new moon to new moon would come, and yes, the second phrase can be interpreted as an end (if we interpret "Shabbat" as "End"), but it is Biblically and generally interpreted as "Sabbath." A literal translation of the phrase in the 23rd verse would be:
The Quran states in 2:40-42:
I don't see easter, halloween or Christmas being mentioned here. It's Ramadan and the Sabbath, the two Covenants God has given to his worshipers, the Covenant of the Children of Israel and the Covenant of Peace, unlike the Pauline Christians who literally took all of their holidays from pagan idolaters, which I won't go into because it's not very relevant to our discussion anyways.
This marks the end of my rebuttal to his "part 1."
Thank you for reading,
/Your bro Exion.
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Peace be to you all.
Introduction:
In this post, I will be answering and refuting the individual who keeps writing posts about me and comments every second he gets trying to "refute" me and "expose" me. I am only doing this because some brothers and sisters have allowed themselves to be fooled by this dude.I won't resort to personal attacks and baseless claims (much like he does), and I will jump straight ahead to answering his objections.
Response to the introduction:
He begins by discussing my translation of the word "ישוחח," which I interpret as "argue" or "put forth."Firstly, in Biblical Hebrew, verb forms such as Qal and Piel (often referred to as Polel in some grammatical traditions) are distinguished by their specific diacritic markings (i.e., vowel points and consonantal diacritics). Since I believe that the Masoretes distorted the Old Testament by adding these diacritics to reach a deviant interpretation, I do not consider them at all. I read the Old Testament without any diacritics. This is something he has yet to understand, perhaps because he believes that the Old Testament was revealed with diacritic markings—I don't know.
He later argues that the ancient Christian manuscripts (such as the Codex Sinaiticus, Septuagint, etc.) must agree with my claims and not with the Masoretic renderings of the Hebrew text, a conclusion he bases on thin air. I ask: Why is that so? Can you give us one good reason for this conclusion? You can't! He says this only because he considers these Christian manuscripts as divinely revealed criteria and translations. In contrast, I (and many others) see them as ancient interpretations of the original Hebrew text, which are very erroneous. This is especially true considering that rabbis themselves claim these scholars and translators failed to understand every Hebrew idiom in the book. They took everything literally and thus deviated from the intended meaning throughout their translations. These are the translations he claims must agree with my understanding.
The Masoretes could even have been influenced by Christians and their manuscripts, leading them to render some verses erroneously, whether knowingly or unknowingly—we can't be certain. However, I believe it wasn't unknowingly, and I have very good reasons for holding this opinion.
His arguments in his objections are all flawed and fallacious.
The Original sin being denied in the OT:
Now, the word he is fixated on is "ישוחח." As he mentioned, I used a classical Hebrew dictionary to translate the word. I don't remember the exact dictionary I used, but here is a random one I will use today:Root: שִׂיחַ (v)Source: מקור: Open Scriptures on GitHub, Creator: יוצר: Based on the work of Larry Pierce at the Online Bible
1 - to put forth, mediate, muse, commune, speak, complain, ponder, sing
1 -(Qal)
1 - to complain
2 - to muse, meditate upon, study, ponder
3 - to talk, sing, speak
2 - (Polel) to meditate, consider, put forth thoughts
In other words, both Qal and Polel essentially mean the same thing.
This following excerpt is from my original post about this, the post he is "refuting":
Excerpt from the post in question:
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Isaiah 53:8, traditional translation:
"From imprisonment and from judgment he is taken, and his generation who shall tell? For he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people, a plague befell them."
The original verse (without diacritics):
מעצר וממשפט לקח ואת־דורו מי ישוחח כי נגזר מארץ חיים מפשע עמי נגע למו:
My translation:
"He was taken from arrest and trial, and as for his generation, who will argue that he was cut off from the land of the living [i.e. killed] for the sin of my people, a plague befell them."
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In this verse, God is explicitly denying the doctrine of the Original Sin, stating that those who argue, speak, put forth, or ponder that Jesus was killed for the sins of His (God's) people are cursed (or afflicted by a plague).
It is crystal clear! He is just in denial because it contradicts his Pauline doctrine. Thus, he has fixated on this specific word, insisting it is (without a shadow of a doubt) in the Polel form (because his Pauline forefathers said so), and claims that Exion has made a grave error. Incredible, indeed. What a rebuttal!
Let's see if the Polel form does anything to save him:
1. Meditate:
"He was taken from arrest and trial, and as for his generation, who will meditate that he was cut off from the land of the living [i.e. killed] for the sin of my people, a plague befell them."The definition of "Meditate" is:
I know it isn't the latter, because that is just ludicrous and silly. But guess what? They even tried to claim it is the latter, which is beyond amusing to me and any other sane person reading this.
- To plan mentally; consider,
- To focus one's mind for a period of time, in silence or with the aid of chanting, for religious or spiritual purposes or as a method of relaxation.
2. Consider:
"He was taken from arrest and trial, and as for his generation, who will consider that he was cut off from the land of the living [i.e. killed] for the sin of my people, a plague befell them."It still obliterates the doctrine of the Original sin completely.
3. Put forth thoughts:
"He was taken from arrest and trial, and as for his generation, who will put forth thoughts that he was cut off from the land of the living [i.e. killed] for the sin of my people, a plague befell them."It still obliterates the doctrine of the Original sin completely.
This is what I have to deal with. He is correcting my interpretation by yet again confirming it and he doesn't even realize it. He refuses to accept that the Old Testament completely refutes this absurd Pauline doctrine that God sent His "son" to the earth to kill him and forgive mankind. He can't understand that the Old Testament aligns with the Quran, calling them cursed. I have explained this to him several times, but to no avail. According to him, the early Christians "meditated" about Jesus' "abode." He raises the same objection in every comment he makes on every future post I do, as if I haven't just refuted him using the Bible, dictionaries, and other sources. In one ear and out the other. The only reason I'm even writing this response is to make you guys realize how unknowledgeable this man really is about the Bible and the Hebrew language. But he is good at making it look like he knows a thing or two by using fancy words and elaborations that make no sense at all.
I believe (if I remember correctly) that he translates it as:
"By oppressive judgment he was taken away, Who could describe his abode?..."This unusual rendering is achieved by mistranslating a word, done specifically to alter the actual meaning. Some Jewish translators render it the same way, but they at least have the decency to add a footnote saying:
"\Who could describe his abode?* Meaning of Heb. uncertain." (source: Sefaria.org)As they usually do when they mistranslate stuff.
Who would describe Jesus abode? What?! With all due respect, but that makes no sense at all! It makes no sense contextually nor logically.
This is how another Jewish translation has it:
"From imprisonment and from judgment he is taken, and his generation who shall tell? For he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people, a plague befell them."Does this look like a coherent sentence to you? Jesus is taken from imprisonment and judgement, and his generation who shall tell? Tell what? This is an incomplete sentence - just to change the actual intended message.
The original phrase is: "ואת־דורו מי ישוחח"
Let me break it down for you:
Word: ואת = "And his"Crystal clear phrase. Even Google translates it accurately (which is very rare by the way):
Word: ־דורו = "Generation"
Word: מי = "Who will"
Word: ישוחח = "Argue/Put forth/Talk/consideetc"
"And his generation who will talk"Take a look at some of the English translations of his Christian forefathers:
New Living Translation Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants...
New International Version By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested?...
King James Bible He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation?...
Some others got the first part accurate but still misinterpreted the last part of the verse, as it claims that they are cursed. God forbid, they are the ones who are cursed, for they consider Jesus to be the cursed one:
English Standard Version By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
They applied the "curse/plague" to Jesus (which they translate as "stricken," even though Biblically it is generally understood to be a plague/curse) instead of applying it to those "who considered" (i.e., the Pauline Christians). The Hebrew verse uses a plural word, indicating that it was intended for those people who would put forth this claim. They all refuse to accept the fact that God is explicitly and literally stating that they are affected by a plague for their erroneous claim about Jesus.
Let's quickly refute them too:
- The word for "plague" is "נגע" (nega).
- The word for "to them" is "למו" (lamo).
"Plague" (נגע):
Hebrew classical dictionary:Heb: נֶגַע (n-m)Source: מקור: Open Scriptures on GitHub, Creator: יוצר: Based on the work of Larry Pierce at the Online Bible
1 - stroke, plague, disease, mark, plague spot
stroke, wound
stroke (metaphorical of disease)
mark (of leprosy)
"To them" (לָֽמוֹ):
Hebrew classical dictionary:1 - inflected pers. pron. meaning ‘to them’ (poetically).Source: מקור: Klein Dictionary, Creator: יוצר: Ezra Klein
2 - [Formed from לְ◌ with ◌מוֹ, a suff. used only in poetry.]
A plague to whom? TO THEM! To the people who put forth this Pauline doctrine, the ones who argued, said, or considered this absurdity. Absolutely not to the one they believed to be cut off for the sin of God's people, namely Jesus, God's prophet, Messiah, His Word, and a spirit from Him.
But this is not surprising to anyone; it is expected, because their savior Paul also considered the blessed Messiah Jesus to be a curse:
"Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.'" (Galatians 3:13)It bothers them that God Himself is confirming that they are the cursed ones, and He does it in the book they believe in. I am the one who exposed it, and all praise is due to God alone. It bothers this guy who is "eXpOsInG" me, and I won't mention his name because that is most likely what he wants.
He goes on to say that I quoted from a fictitious source, which is not true at all. I simply didn’t bother looking through my entire library to find a quote I mistakenly mis-referenced, mainly because the quote turned out to be quite irrelevant, and I don’t waste my time like that. Much of what he initiated his "rebuttal" with is equally misunderstood by him, and I have responded to each and every objection in my older posts (in the comment sections where he was "eXpOsInG" me). I picked the first thing and refuted it here for you just to show how ignorant he really is and how he is either living a lie or lying to others.
So, I will not bother to refute every single point of the old stuff that I’ve already conclusively answered. It's a waste of time. Let’s move on to his objections to my latest posts, because that is what this is all about in reality.
My answers to his objections to my latest posts:
Regarding the stone God mentions that was to be placed in the Temple of God, he says that it is saying"Stone to a stone," or "upon a stone"My answer:
"Stone to a stone" is not a Hebrew idiom, and neither is the word "upon" there in Hebrew. He doesn't know Hebrew, had he known Hebrew, he would never have "eXpOsEd" this because it just went to show that he doesn't know the language at all.
The Hebrew word "שום" (shum) in this context is derived from the root ש-ו-ם, which means "to place" or "to put." It appears here as an infinitive construct, which is often used to convey the act of doing something, similar to the English "-ing" form. In this sentence, "שום" is functioning as a gerund, which is a verbal noun. It translates to "placing" or "putting" in English. Therefore, "שום־אבן" means "placing a stone" or "putting a stone."
As for the next word, i.e. "stone" (אבן), in Hebrew, nouns have gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural). "אבן" is a feminine singular noun. When used in the phrase "שום־אבן" (placing a stone), "אבן" functions as the direct object of the action described by the infinitive construct "שום" (placing).
The next word is אל: This is taken as a preposition according to them, and it generally means "to" or "toward," and never "upon." It is used to indicate direction or movement towards something. While the following word is, again, a stone "אבן."
So if we're going with their interpretation, while being literal, as we should because it is not an idiom, it accurately translates to:
"Before placing a stone to a stone" or "before placing stone to stone"
Which makes very little sense, if any. Why wouldn't God say "Before placing stone upon stone" or "Stones upon stones" or "before placing a stone upon a stone"? Why did He use a singular word for "stone"? Because it is speaking about a one stone, the stone that God placed in Zion:
"So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic." (Isaiah 28:16)I have proven in countless posts that Zion is the ancient name for Mecca. Just look up Psalm 84, and you will see how it mentions doing the pilgrimage in Zion and also mentions "Bacca," another name for Mecca. I have proven how Harran is located in Mecca and that the oak of Bacca is located there as well, and we know according to Psalm 84 that Zion is located where Bacca is located. With this in mind, it’s easy to see what has been done to cover up this prophecy. They have misinterpreted the word "El" as "Upon" instead of "God." The definition of that word is not "Upon"; it means "To/toward" or "God."
Classical Hebrew dictionary:
Heb: אֵל (n-m)Source: מקור: Open Scriptures on GitHub, creator: יוצר: Based on the work of Larry Pierce at the Online Bible
god, god-like one, mighty one
mighty men, men of rank, mighty heroes
angels
god, false god, (demons, imaginations)
God, the one true God, Jehovah
mighty things in nature
strength, power
And:
Heb: אֶל (prep.)Source: מקור: Klein Dictionary, Creator: יוצר: Ezra Klein
denoting motion toward or to, or direction toward, and meaning ‘to, unto, toward, into, at, by’.
[Shortened from אֱלֵי (which is preserved in poetry). cp. עֲלֵי, poetical form of עַל (= on), and עֲדֵי, poetical form of עַד (= as far as, until). Related to Arab. ’ilā (= to, toward, up to).]
Let's see if any of these help him:
Before placing a stone to a stone?Does any of this make any sense to you? I believe it certainly does not. Yet they have all chosen to ignore these valid definitions and instead opt for a definition that isn't there, namely: "a stone UPON a stone," just to claim that God was idiomatically saying "Before you build the temple." The temple was already built, as I will prove later below.
Before placing a stone towards a stone?
Before placing a stone into a stone?
Before placing a stone unto a stone? (archaic term for "to")
Before placing a stone at a stone?
Before placing a stone by a stone?
To get a more coherent translation, one that makes sense both contextually and linguistically, we need to consider "El" as "God":
ועתה - "And now"Here, "אל־אבן" would translate to "God's stone" or "stone of God." Thus, the phrase "מטרם שום־אבן אל־אבן בהיכל יהוה" would be understood as "before placing a stone as God's stone in the temple of YHWH" or "before placing a stone, God's stone, in the temple of YHWH"
שימו־נא - "consider, please"
לבבכם - "your heart"
מן־היום - "from this day"
הזה - "this"
ומעלה - "and onward"
מטרם - "before"
שום־אבן - "placing a stone"
אל־אבן - "God's stone/stone of God"
בהיכל - "in the Temple"
יהוה - "of YHWH" (YHWH)
He is just in denial here as well. It is quite obvious that God is talking about placing a stone in the Temple of God, not about placing a stone towards a stone (whatever that means). Biblically, it is known that Jacob placed a stone in the House of God in Harran, which I have also proven to be located in the vicinity of Mecca, using 1st-century CE atlases by giants in geography such as Pomponius Mela, Pliny, and others.
He writes:
"More importantly, Exion ignored that “stone” in the Hebrew occurs twice. If we take אל to be God and take it as the construct state (the ‘s) then it would be “before setting stone’s God’s stone”. That doesn’t make sense hence why Exion dropped the first occurrence of אֶ֛בֶן in their translation."Or you could simply not take "El" as a construct state. In Hebrew, a noun followed by another noun can indicate possession without needing a construct state (i.e. the equivalent of adding 's in English). This is often called "smikhut" or construct form, but it is not always necessary to explicitly form it.
In the phrase "שום־אבן אל־אבן" (placing a stone as God's stone), the context and the nouns' arrangement provide the possessive meaning without requiring additional grammatical changes. "אל־אבן" can be understood as "God's stone" even though it is not in the formal construct state. This is something he doesn't know because, well, who knows why. I have my speculations, but I will refrain from personal attacks.
He says:
"It makes perfect sense with the rest of the verse “in the temple of Yahweh.” It’s talking about before the building of the temple which involved setting stone upon stone."Oh really? Is that why the 3rd verse literally talks about the Temple that already was in existence but was viewed as nothing in their eyes (i.e. insignificant):
"Who among you is left, who saw this house in its former glory? And as you see it now, is it not as nothing in your eyes?" (Haggai 2:3)Explicitly contradicting your claim that it doesn't exist, but you didn't know that because you have probably never even read the entirety of the chapter to begin with. The Temple was already there. A stone was to be placed in it, God's stone, the black stone of the House of God, and not that it was to be built or built anew. This is why I even wrote the article, because the temple of God was already in existence. How you could have missed this, if you've read the chapter in it entirety, is very baffling to me.
This is why Jacob, upon waking from his prophetic dream, never built the House of God. (Yes, Jacob was a prophet, but Christian scholars throughout history didn't recognize this and thought he was merely a patriarch.) Instead, he only placed a stone as its cornerstone and named it "The House of God":
16. When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.” 17. And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!” 18. Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it."Going back to Haggai 2, the 6th verse states:
"כי כה אמר יהוה צבאות עוד אחת מעט היא ואני מרעיש את־השמים ואת־הארץ ואת־הים ואת־החרבה:"Which literally translates to:
"For thus says the Lord of Hosts: Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land."Which they have erroneously translated as:
"For so said the Lord of Hosts: [There will rise] another one, and I will shake up the heaven and the earth and the sea and the dry land [for] a little while." (source)Lying and adding words to the Word of God to make it look like another House would be raised.
7th verse states:
Haggai 2:7
"והרעשתי את־כל־הגוים ובאו חמדת כל־הגוים ומלאתי את־הבית הזה כבוד אמר יהוה צבאות:"Transliteration:
"Ve-hir'ashti et kol ha-goyim u-va'u chemdat kol ha-goyim u-milati et ha-bayit ha-zeh kavod amar Adonai Tzva'ot."Not only does it confirm that the House is already in existence, but it mentioned our prophet Ahmad coming to it by using the cognate of his name, "Chemdat," which they erroneously have translated as:
"and the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this Temple."The preposition "the" is not there before "Chemdat," while it is before "Goyim" (heathens), which makes sense because "Chemdat of all the heathens (will come)" and doesn't translate to "The treasure of all the heathens (will come)," as they have it.
Let me break it down for you:
והרעשתִי (ve-hir'ashti) - "and I will shake"
את (et) - [direct object marker, not translated]
כל (kol) - "all"
הגוים (ha-goyim) - "the heathens"
ובאו (u-va'u) - "and they will come"
חמדת (Chemdat) - "Chemdat" (proper noun)
כל (kol) - "of all"
הגוים (ha-goyim) - "the heathens"
ומלאתי (u-milati) - "and I will fill"
את (et) - [direct object marker, not translated]
הבית (ha-bayit) - "the house"
הזה (ha-zeh) - "this"
כבוד (kavod) - "glory"
אמר (amar) - "says"
יהוה (Adonai) - "Lord"
צבאות (Tzva'ot) - "of Hosts"
Result:
"And I will shake all the heathens, and they will come, Chemdat of all the heathens, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of Hosts."
Explanation:
They have translated it as "the treasures of..." while the phrase "Chemdat" lacks a "The" (Ha), so it would more accurately be rendered as:"And they will come, treasure of all the heathens, and..."A very awkward sentence grammatically. And the dictionaries do not define חמדת (Chemdat) as "Treasure," but rather as "Desire" or "Precious." But translating this phrase in this way (if we consider it to mean "desire" or "precious"), we would make the verse even more awkward:
"And they will come, desire of all the heathens" or "And they will come, precious of all the heathens."Because it is a singular phrase, and not plural, and as I mentioned earlier, lacks a definite preposition.
But if we consider "Chemdat" as a cognate of "Ahmad," as a proper noun referring to Ahmad the prophet (the only heathen prophet known today), it suddenly becomes a very coherent verse that makes much sense. The heathens will be shaken, and they will come. Then, He specifies by saying: Chemdat of all the heathens, and continues with the rest of the verse.
The phrase "הגוים" (ha-goyim) translates as "the heathens," which supports the interpretation that "Chemdat" is a proper noun referring to a significant heathen person anticipated to come. God is going to shake all the heathens, and they will come. Then He specifies who would come: "Chemdat of all the heathens (will come)." He then says He will fill this house, which they saw as nothing, with glory. The house already exists; Chemdat of all nations was just about to come, and God would fill this house with glory again. And, of course, the stone Jacob laid in Genesis 28—the same stone that Jesus referred to in Matthew 21:
The Kingdom of God was intended to be taken away from the Christians and given to a people who would produce its fruits, and this is what happened when Islam came.43. Therefore, I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit."
- Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes?'
Going back to Haggai 2, the 18th verse also confirms that the Temple already was there:
"Consider, please, your heart from this day and onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the temple of the Lord was founded, consider your heart."Just because God considers the two Houses (the current one they saw as insignificant and the later one) as "different" does not mean that it does not already exist physically but will be a different House.
Nevertheless, he is right about one thing regarding this chapter: it does not mention the new moon to new moon and the end of the Sabbath—that was in Isaiah 66. My mistake. But the prophecy is still valid. The new moon to new moon would come, and yes, the second phrase can be interpreted as an end (if we interpret "Shabbat" as "End"), but it is Biblically and generally interpreted as "Sabbath." A literal translation of the phrase in the 23rd verse would be:
שבת (shabbat) - "Sabbath"Let's agree that it means what the traditional translations say it means, and I don't mean hypothetically, but let's actually agree on that. However, the prophecy about the new moons (Ramadan) is still there and valid because God has not canceled the Sabbath in the Quran; it is still ongoing:
בשבתו (be-shabbato) - "His Sabbath"
יבוא (yavo) - "it will come"
The Quran states in 2:40-42:
Verse 40: "O Children of Israel, remember My favor which I have bestowed upon you and fulfill My covenant [upon you] that I will fulfill your covenant [from Me], and fear Me."The new moon to a new moon is combined with the Sabbath to Sabbath. This is a fulfilled prophecy!
Verse 41: "And believe in what I have sent down confirming that which is [already] with you, and be not the first to disbelieve in it. And do not exchange My signs/verses for a small price, and fear Me."
Verse 42: "And do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know [it]."
I don't see easter, halloween or Christmas being mentioned here. It's Ramadan and the Sabbath, the two Covenants God has given to his worshipers, the Covenant of the Children of Israel and the Covenant of Peace, unlike the Pauline Christians who literally took all of their holidays from pagan idolaters, which I won't go into because it's not very relevant to our discussion anyways.
This marks the end of my rebuttal to his "part 1."
Thank you for reading,
/Your bro Exion.
2024.06.01 09:41 Wise-Judgment-4347 Am I the asshole if I refuse to go home because I think I might commit suicide if I do.
I'll be leaving uni for home in a few days time, but I just got off the phone after talking with my parents and siblings and had felt triggered about the past 2 years and how I almost commited suicide because of all the stress and pressure of putting up with what had transpired. For context, I'm 24 (F) in my last year of uni, and I have two brothers 30(M) and (5M) who live with my parents (Both in their late 50's), who live in the country side. I had been diagnosed with heart disease when I was in highschool and since then things have been tough for me, with losing all my weight and having to go through three different schools just to complete high school because of my health, but since then I have got the hang of taking care of myself and my symptoms, I have gained weight, made it to uni (which was a suprise not only to myself but my teachers as well) and am almost done with uni, and I could not be prouder. However, this past week has been a roller coaster, with thoughts of committing suicide lurking in every corner, I didn't know why at first but after talking to my parents on the phone bits of memories came flooding back to me about how I thought I reached my point of living and that my heart was gonna give out any moment or that it would be better if I'd just off myself with that sharp knife in the corner by slitting my wrists open. You see, my mum had this really bad lung infection the Christmas of 2022 while I was home for the holidays, and I took on most of the responsibility of taking care of her from 5am in the morning to the next morning where I'd sleep at 3am after ensuring she was okay, then wake up to do it all again. Don't get me wrong, I loved taking care of my mum, it made me happy that I could be there when she was at her weakest to lend her the strength and care she deserved after taking care of me all these years. It all happened one afternoon when my brother has come home afted being gone all day and did not even receive an earful from my parents (or mainly my dad) like I did for being out for just 2 hours to unwind from taking care of my mum and nursing her back to health all while not having any contact with friends or the outside world then our yard for almost 2 months, I was called selfish by my dad and told that my actions were stupid that if my mum would die I'd look stupid crying for her just like my mum's sister who chose to go out and meet friends the day her father died, that I was supposed to be at home with mum taking care of her. My dad is a stay at home dad, my older brother dropped out of college and my mum is the sole bread winner of the family. While my mum was sick, my dad would get groceries, attend to church meetings, ensure the yard was kept clean lend a hand when it was needed with caring for mum while my brother ate, slept on time, had time to meet friends, throw his plates in the sink without washing them and not lending a hand with helping mum. Meanwhile I spent my days bathing her, dressing her, feeding her, massaging her body, changing her hot water in her mugs to ensure she stayed hydrated because that's all she could drink without coughing , cleaning her sleeping area and sanitizing it everytime she had to go to bed after a warm bath as well as watching over her as she slept to ensure her pillows were placed in a way that didn't obstruct her airflow all while also ensuring that everyone's laundry was done and put away, food was cooked and served, plates were washed and put away, my little brother was cared for also while doing part of my dad's work around the house to ensure he got enoughg sleep at night, since we lived by the country side there were a lot of chores to do around the house as most of the things were done manually or by hand. I did this until she got back on her feet and was able to do little things around the house without my help. After a week or two when my mum had improved told my parents that I'll be gone the next day after lunch to see my friend and that normally before mum got sick Friday was a free day for me that I get an off day of doing house work. So the day came, I dressed up (I felt pretty after not being able to do that in a whole) and left after ensuring that my big brother was home to assist mum whenever she needed and also checked on my mum to see if she was okay and that she didn't need my help before I stepped out of the house at 2pm. The walk to my friend's house felt like heaven, with sun in my face, the breeze on my face and the skip in my step. I spent the afternoon talking, laughing and having a good time with my friend before going home at 5pm, happy and satisfied that the day had brought me so much joy and relieved my stress. I got and came in with a big Hello, to everyone in the house, my dad didn't say anything, he just sat there looking so mad. And that's when he proceeded to call me selfish and compare me to my mother's sister all while my mother and brother sat there saying nothing, I atleast thought they would've spoken up to say that I needed the break, but they didn't. I cried as ai stood there listening to my dad utter out harsh words until I couldn't listen to him anymore. I proceeded muster up a less shaky voice and said the following "I apologies for going out to see my friend and I apologies mum and dad it won't happen again, but the thing is I needed this, after taking care of mum and the house I just needed a break. My brother gets to go out, meet friend and talk to them and even stay out till late but he never gets scolded but when I do it's different. I do everything in this house, I take care of mum, wash all of your clothes, cook the food, feed you all and even wash up after everything and you big brother can't even wash your own plate or lend a hand. Oh and dad I spend the time I get after mum finally rests during the day to do some of your chores to cut down the amount of time you spend doing them in order for you to get a good night's rest and I go to sleep early in the morning just to wake up after 2 hours and do it all again. So I'm sorry that I had to go out, but I really needed it." After saying all that, I went up to my room and cried the whole night. The next morning I came downstairs at 10am to find my dad washing up and my mum on her phone, it was a quiet day, I thought my brother was in his room, then the we got heard that he had actually left in the morning to go visit my aunt who is a 30 minute drive from our house, where he spent the day hanging out with friends and cousins before coming back home at 6pm with my grandma who came to spend a week with us. My dad upon hearing the news that my brother was had left in the morning just shook his head and said that my brother should have stayed and lend a hand around the house, but after my brother got back I was hoping he'd get the same scolding my dad gave me, well that never happened. I went to my mum and asked her why wasn't daddy scolding my big brother and she did not say anything so I spoke up and said aloud, "wow, so I get a scolding for staying out for just 3 hours but he gets to stay out for an entire day without helping out around here and he gets welcomed home?" I then went to my room because I didn't want them to see the tears that started to fall, then it hit me when I was in my room crying, everything that happened over the years on how differently I was treated, my accomplishments my birthday's and even my sickness. It hit me how differently I was treated, my brother had big graduation foods prepared and his graduations were celebrated from primary all the way to high school and little courses while I just had a well done from my parents even after taking in prices since I was in elementary, thought they'd take me out to eat a celebratory lunch after my high school graduation because it was the hardest part of my life to pass but all I got was a disgusted look and a 'thats what your wearing?' after at my graduation after I took my gown off to take pictures. I can't remember the time I blew out candles for my birthday or when a party was thrown for me, but my brother somehow has a cake for most of his birthdays and he had a really big party once with four big cakes, a whole roasted pig, lots of food and even had all his friends invited. When i reaches the age of 14, the same age he was when my parents threw him a party, I thought I'd have the same too, but I didn't, and still had not one party until I turned 24. The day I turned 23, was a month after my mum got better, I spent the whole day cooking for everyone, was wished happy birthday after realising it was my birthday, I then told them I'd come down to eat later after I take a nap and that they should serve the food and leave mine on the dining table. I came down to find they ate most of the food, and I was only placed only a bit of food in my plate. I got mad and hit my plate on the table with just a little food spilling over, my dad saw this and screamed at me and told me that my future husband would beat me up and that my life will be miserable and bad because of what I did. Well you guessed it, I went back to my room crying, and that blade in my bag looked so tempting against my wrists. I also remember when my brother dropped out of college that I was blamed by my parents, with my dad telling me on my way back from the grocery store that I'm the reason my brother ended up like how he is because they show me too much favour growing up. And when my big brother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after dropping out of college after misuse of alcohol and drugs my mum religiously took to the internet to search for diets, information and everything to do with it until he became better and she continued doing so for every little sickness like flu, meanwhile my heart disease was never on her search list. She even signed up for YouTube videos and lessons on everything to do with my brother health, and mind you my heart disease was diagnosed 6 years before he got bipolar. I left for school after the holidays, still exhausted and stressed from the entire experience. My body had reached its lowest point, I could feel my heart was tired, I was ready to die in my bed in my dorm, I had made peace that if my heart passed out before while rest I'd be okay with it. That's third year of uni was hell for me, my body never really recovered, I kept getting sick, had malaria countless times as well as typhoid three times in a row the same year. The stress combined with with the state of my immunity caused me to be sent to various medical officers and clinics to get my blood samples and x-rays to find what was wrong with me, why after being treated and cured my body felt sick. They thought I had tuberculosis, others thought I had STI's but all tests came back negative, and mind you all these tests cost money and my parents weren't happy with what they were spending for me to get this tests. It came to a point when I called my mum to tell her that I feel really sick and I'm stressed with my assignments, only for her to say "you're always sick, everytime we call you're sick. Don't you know we're tired of this, stop trying to get sick!". I'm tired of getting sick too mum, I thought to myself as I got off the call and stared at the pile of medicine Infront of me prescribed by the doctor as well as my heart meds, and they were too much, my mum's words over the phone kept playing in my head I I got my the blade on my study table and pressed it into my left wrist lightly drew it over to cut the skin, the pain felt soothinf, calming even, then I wondered how it would feel if I placed the knife on my study table and fell on it to pierce my heart, would the pain feel good? Would the thoughts stop? Would mum stop complaining? Would they mis me? What would happen to my body? Then I thought better of it and wrote in my dairy ro stop myself from doing ealxactly that then I was distracted by my medicine Infront of me with thoughts of "they would never know if you take all these and overdose, it'll be a painless death." The remainder of third year continued like these, with sickness and suicide thoughts until I went for job internship at a company I've always wanted to work in and life was good because i didnt for home for the holidays and I spent the holidays at school in my little dorm room with friends who looked out for me. Then 2024 rolled around and I'm properly rested, no stress and I'm happy. That's is until a month ago when my parents bought me my ticket to go back home to see them for the holidays that I spiralled, I had completely locked those memories away, but after every phone call this past month I'm left a crying mess with flashes of words said and feelings felt during that time and I go back to thinking of suicide. I nearly commited suicide on the 16th of may, i was truly gonna go throught with it, I wanted to so bad if only I did not see the bible verses in front of me amd if my roommates hadn't come back early. But I know, if I do go home now, I might actually commit suicide, if something like what happened in the past happens again, or if they say another harsh word, I wouldn't think twice of dying, because I'm done, I truly am.
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2024.06.01 09:31 Sweet-Wedding2622 I feel like I keep messing up on cardiac's
For starters, I'm a dispatcher a year and a half almost two years in - in September. Only fully released for about a year and some change.
I feel I do everything well , but I have tended to struggle with cardiac calls. Our center uses EMD, so if you are familiar with how that works, I am sure you are aware of how strict , but useful it is to medical calls.
I have gotten a call review on a cardiac call before and I had expressed to my QA boss that I would benefit with trainings and more practice with cardiac calls. They assigned me several IAED classes that focus on cardiac calls and that has helped me improve tremendously since. However every time I take a cardiac call or something that leads to CPR being needed , I tend to feel like I have done something wrong or could have done better, and that it is my fault the patient dies. No reading articles and online classes can prepare you for actual calls .
Just the other day I had a caller who was reporting her 18yo nephew was unconscious and the mom was doing cpr . I Did ask if she needed CPR instructions to be read to the mom and she said not right now she's familiar because the pt had cerebral palsy. When I asked the caller if the pt was laying on his back , she told me that he was in a passenger seat in the car and was lying flat . Later on in the call, I asked how the CPR was going and she advised that the mom had stopped because she was crying . I immediately told the caller to take over for her and read the cpr instructions as written and told her they were doing a good job to help him until the responders got there.
Once ems and fire got there they worked on him for a while and ended up calling him as deceased. This made me worry due to my anxiety and past struggles with cardiac calls. Later on a officer called into the center for a recording of the 9-1-1 call. This only elevated my fears that I had done something wrong . I listened back to my call and I went through protocol correctly and reassured myself that I did all I could do. My co worker also assured me of same and said that they may have just been requesting the call due to the patients age or per their own protocols (neighboring police agency).
This leads me to the call I had tonight which really has me worried or more so upset that I could have done something better .
Tonight I took a call , lady called in for her husband . I noticed off hand that she was a Spanish / English speaking caller, but she seemed to be answering good enough in English to proceed without switching her to a language line and I was able to go ahead and get ems and fire enroute emergency traffic . We also have a Spanish speaking call taker in the room as well, but she was on the phone and has a trainee that was as well. I went ahead and continued to process the call due to the urgency of the symptoms. (she also never requested for a Spanish speaker). The wife was answering just fine and had no troubles explaining to me that she felt her husband was having a heart attack . One of her children came in the room as well and I assume the caller had me on speaker phone because when I asked the case entry questions "is he awake , is he breathing? " they both said yes. I continued with the call and the child began answering the questions for me very well, and I made sure to let the child know they were doing a good job and we were getting help to him quickly . He or she spoke English so they were able to answer for me. At one point it was answered that he has history of heart attack and then I heard several other children or family members come into the room .
They all started to chatter and suddenly began screaming . I tried to get one of their attentions and one of the children said he just stopped breathing and that their older sister started cpr , they then told me that he has a pacemaker but due to the heightened emotions of all the callers in the room - the person responding to me couldn't think of the word pace maker off the top of their heads , I understood what she meant because she said "The thing that shocks your heart" . I continued to try to see if they needed cpr instructions and they all began panicking and speaking to each other in Spanish and not listening to me no matter how hard I tried to get one of them to answer to me . My coworker finally got off of the call she was on and I told her what was going on and she said to let her speak to the mother who would be able to better give her information in Spanish and in my logic- to not give the kids any more stress than they were already facing . My coworker took over the call and was able to talk one of them into taking the CPR instructions once one of them came back to the phone , they switched out who was doing it ,and then the caller just abruptly disconnects - not even telling us that fire or ems had gotten there. Ems and fire got on scene and continued cpr with ROSC (coming back to) several times and I was just shaking in my seat feeling terrible , Like I could have handled the situation better. I was just worried this dad was going to die . I know he had previous health issues before , but it still bothered me. Also I know that switching them to the language line would have been very tedious and if you've ever done so , administering cpr over the language line is not very useful . The male finally came too and was rushed to the nearest hospital but I know he also coded while enroute to same -but had rosc again before getting to the hospital .
After the call, my coworker who helped take over the call, seemed to be aggravated with me . I know she was probably just bothered by the emotions of a cardiac call like everyone else is after these calls , but something just made me feel like she thought I did something wrong or that she was just po'd in general . (She's a shift assistant supervisor and already has some sort of one sided beef with me (I can explain later) - our main shift lead was out today )
I know that I'm probably just having anxiety over this but these are serious calls and we are responsible to make sure that we give the callers the best service and life saving instructions so if there is something I can do better or improve on, I would like to know . I have emailed my QA boss who handles these calls and reviews them . I asked her in my email to review it for me and if she could help me figure out if there was anything that could be done better in the future for a situation like this.
Thanks for coming to my rant . Do any of you also have trouble with situations like this ?
Please consider DM ing me if your are interested in sharing any of your stories to help assist me with my research novel " I AM NOT 10-4" . In this novel , I will touch on the many things that dispatchers endure such as stress , burnout, and what its like to deal with stressful calls.
You are appreciated. Thankyou !
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I feel I do everything well , but I have tended to struggle with cardiac calls. Our center uses EMD, so if you are familiar with how that works, I am sure you are aware of how strict , but useful it is to medical calls.
I have gotten a call review on a cardiac call before and I had expressed to my QA boss that I would benefit with trainings and more practice with cardiac calls. They assigned me several IAED classes that focus on cardiac calls and that has helped me improve tremendously since. However every time I take a cardiac call or something that leads to CPR being needed , I tend to feel like I have done something wrong or could have done better, and that it is my fault the patient dies. No reading articles and online classes can prepare you for actual calls .
Just the other day I had a caller who was reporting her 18yo nephew was unconscious and the mom was doing cpr . I Did ask if she needed CPR instructions to be read to the mom and she said not right now she's familiar because the pt had cerebral palsy. When I asked the caller if the pt was laying on his back , she told me that he was in a passenger seat in the car and was lying flat . Later on in the call, I asked how the CPR was going and she advised that the mom had stopped because she was crying . I immediately told the caller to take over for her and read the cpr instructions as written and told her they were doing a good job to help him until the responders got there.
Once ems and fire got there they worked on him for a while and ended up calling him as deceased. This made me worry due to my anxiety and past struggles with cardiac calls. Later on a officer called into the center for a recording of the 9-1-1 call. This only elevated my fears that I had done something wrong . I listened back to my call and I went through protocol correctly and reassured myself that I did all I could do. My co worker also assured me of same and said that they may have just been requesting the call due to the patients age or per their own protocols (neighboring police agency).
This leads me to the call I had tonight which really has me worried or more so upset that I could have done something better .
Tonight I took a call , lady called in for her husband . I noticed off hand that she was a Spanish / English speaking caller, but she seemed to be answering good enough in English to proceed without switching her to a language line and I was able to go ahead and get ems and fire enroute emergency traffic . We also have a Spanish speaking call taker in the room as well, but she was on the phone and has a trainee that was as well. I went ahead and continued to process the call due to the urgency of the symptoms. (she also never requested for a Spanish speaker). The wife was answering just fine and had no troubles explaining to me that she felt her husband was having a heart attack . One of her children came in the room as well and I assume the caller had me on speaker phone because when I asked the case entry questions "is he awake , is he breathing? " they both said yes. I continued with the call and the child began answering the questions for me very well, and I made sure to let the child know they were doing a good job and we were getting help to him quickly . He or she spoke English so they were able to answer for me. At one point it was answered that he has history of heart attack and then I heard several other children or family members come into the room .
They all started to chatter and suddenly began screaming . I tried to get one of their attentions and one of the children said he just stopped breathing and that their older sister started cpr , they then told me that he has a pacemaker but due to the heightened emotions of all the callers in the room - the person responding to me couldn't think of the word pace maker off the top of their heads , I understood what she meant because she said "The thing that shocks your heart" . I continued to try to see if they needed cpr instructions and they all began panicking and speaking to each other in Spanish and not listening to me no matter how hard I tried to get one of them to answer to me . My coworker finally got off of the call she was on and I told her what was going on and she said to let her speak to the mother who would be able to better give her information in Spanish and in my logic- to not give the kids any more stress than they were already facing . My coworker took over the call and was able to talk one of them into taking the CPR instructions once one of them came back to the phone , they switched out who was doing it ,and then the caller just abruptly disconnects - not even telling us that fire or ems had gotten there. Ems and fire got on scene and continued cpr with ROSC (coming back to) several times and I was just shaking in my seat feeling terrible , Like I could have handled the situation better. I was just worried this dad was going to die . I know he had previous health issues before , but it still bothered me. Also I know that switching them to the language line would have been very tedious and if you've ever done so , administering cpr over the language line is not very useful . The male finally came too and was rushed to the nearest hospital but I know he also coded while enroute to same -but had rosc again before getting to the hospital .
After the call, my coworker who helped take over the call, seemed to be aggravated with me . I know she was probably just bothered by the emotions of a cardiac call like everyone else is after these calls , but something just made me feel like she thought I did something wrong or that she was just po'd in general . (She's a shift assistant supervisor and already has some sort of one sided beef with me (I can explain later) - our main shift lead was out today )
I know that I'm probably just having anxiety over this but these are serious calls and we are responsible to make sure that we give the callers the best service and life saving instructions so if there is something I can do better or improve on, I would like to know . I have emailed my QA boss who handles these calls and reviews them . I asked her in my email to review it for me and if she could help me figure out if there was anything that could be done better in the future for a situation like this.
Thanks for coming to my rant . Do any of you also have trouble with situations like this ?
Please consider DM ing me if your are interested in sharing any of your stories to help assist me with my research novel " I AM NOT 10-4" . In this novel , I will touch on the many things that dispatchers endure such as stress , burnout, and what its like to deal with stressful calls.
You are appreciated. Thankyou !
2024.06.01 09:31 stlatos Optionality in Linear B
https://www.academia.edu/120354398
Varias García gives an overview of ideas about the meaning of LB ke-se-nu-wi-jo / ke-se-ne-wi-jo. The variation in spelling is due to the need for a “dummy vowel” when writing C-clusters in a syllabary, and has no meaning for syllabification or other pronunciation. Among the options considered, one could interpret ke-se-nu-wi-jo was ‘foreign / to be given as guest-gifts / received as guest-gifts’. In favor of some of these is the importance of guest-host relationship in ancient Greece, but another piece of evidence could also support this. Since scribe 103 wrote ze-ne-si-wi-jo in :
M(1) 720
.a o-re-o-po TELA [
.b ze-ne-si-wi-jo / *146 1[
it is likely ze- is the equivalent of ke-se. Varias García wrote, “scribe 103 always writes a-ze-ti-ri-ja, at least four times, and never a-ke-ti-ri-ja for the word /askētria/, using syllabogram ze instead of ke for the compound sound /ske/. In parallel, did scribe 103 maybe use a peculiar spelling ze-se- instead of ke-se- for /kse/, as Lejeune suggested, and was ze-ne-si-wi-jo another [piece of] evidence of the term /Xenwios/ in Mycenaean Greek []?” The basics of this idea are true, but ze is not a spelling for /ske/ but simply for /tse/, as would be expected based on the other uses of the z-series. Greek shows variation of k(h)s / sk(h) and ks / ts, allowing all these words to have the same etymology for those with ze and ke-se. Thus, G. xénisis ‘entertainment of a guest’ would form *ksenwitiyos ‘(gift) for entertainment of a guest’ > LB ze-ne-si-wi-jo (with misplaced syllables, as considered in Varias García).
The changes in *k(h)s / *sk(h) would fit ze-ne-si-wi-jo & a-ze-ti-ri-ja; also in (Whalen 2024b) :
*ksenwo- ‘guest’ > Att. xénos, skheno-
G. phoxós \ phoûskos ‘sharp / pointed / with a pointed head’.
*ek^s-ato- ‘furthest out’ > G> éskhatos ‘farthest / last / highest / lowest / etc.’
*sH2usko- ‘dry’ > Skt. śúṣka-, Av. huška-; *sHausk-mo- > *sHauks-mo- > G. aukhmós ‘aridity / dryness’
*aks > askós ‘skin / hide’ (see below)
*siskW- > MIr sesc ‘dry’, W. hysb, *hiskW- > G. iskhás ‘dried fig’, iskhaléos ‘dried’, iskhnós ‘dry / withered’
and ks / ts in (Whalen 2024a) :
*ksom / *tsom ‘with’ > xun- / sun-
G. *órnīth-s > órnīs ‘bird’, gen. órnīthos, Dor. órnīx
G. Ártemis, -id-, Dor. Artamis, LB artemīt- / artimīt-, *Artimik-s > Lydian Artimuk / Artimuś
Skt. kṣviḍ- ‘hum / murmur’, L. sībilus ‘whistling / hissing’,*kswizd- > *tswizd- > G. sízō ‘hiss’
*ksw(e)rd- > W. chwarddu ‘laugh’, Sog. sxwarð- ‘shout’, *tswrd- > G. sardázō ‘deride’
*(s)trozd(h)o- > Li. strãzdas, Att. stroûthos ‘sparrow’, metathesis > *tsouthros > xoûthros
*H1ludh-s-to- ‘raised’ > Cr. lúttos ‘high / lofty’, Lúktos \ Lúttos ‘a city in Crete’
G. Odusseús / Olutteus / Ōlixēs << lússa / lútta ‘rage / fury / mania / rabies’ < *(o)luksa < *wluk-ya ‘wolfishness’ << lúkos ‘wolf’ (Whalen 2024c)
PIE *-ts (in locations, adv., like *k^i-ts ‘on this side (of) / near’ > L. cis, H. kez) > *-ks > G. -x:
*g^nu-ts > gnúx ‘on the knee’
Since scribe 103 always wrote a-ze-ti-ri-ja for the LB word a-ke-ti-ri-ja ‘adorner?’ (G. askētḗr ‘one who practises any art or trade’, fem. askḗtria), it is possible that ks / ts is the older cluster, with sk being later. This would help find the origin of G. askéō ‘work/form/adorn/honotrain’, askós ‘skin / hide’ (leatherworking was very important in Myc. society). Since G. dialects had ai > a(:), like Macedonian (G. aithḗr, Mac. adê ‘sky’; G. aithría ‘clear weather’, Mac. adraía), the simple choice is G. aîx ‘she-goat’ > *aks > *ask > askós (adapted as an o-stem, if an interdia. loan). The use of ‘goat’ or a derivative for ‘hide / leather’ is very common in IE (OCS jazno ‘leather’, Li. ožìnis ‘of goats’, Av. izaēna- ‘of (goat’s) skin’, Bac. zin ‘skin’, Skt. ajína-m; R. kozá ‘ goat’, OBg koža ‘skin’; OE hécen, Go. hakuls ‘mantle’).
LB da-i- is found in the man’s name da-i-wo-wo / *da(h)i-worwos ‘protecting in battle’, etc. Since G. dáïs & dêris ‘battle/combat’ are very similar and without certain ety. (or with odd sound changes), an explanation that covers all these would be helpful. The resemblance of dêris to Skt. +dāri- ‘splitting’, *derH2- > Greek dérō ‘flay/skin’, Arm. teṙem ‘flay/skin/make callous’, *drH2-togaH2 > taṙatok ‘garment, cloak, coat’ looks good. Since *derH2- already has several irregularities (*H2 > 0 in G. dratós \ dartós ‘flayed/skinned’, dérma ‘skin’, etc.; *rH2 > *rr > ṙ in Arm. teṙem), it is likely that *rH2 was pronounced rx / rR (Whalen 2024d) which could undergo optional changes, such as R > H, R > r, rR > Rr, etc. If so, it would allow :
*derRi- > *deRri- > Skt. +dāri- ‘splitting’, G. dáïs & dêris ‘battle/combat’
*deRRi- > *dexxi- = *deH2H2i- > *daH2H2i- > *dahi- > G. dáïs ‘battle’
Varias García, Carlos (2017) Mycenaean Terms with the Stem /xenwos/: ‘Foreigner, Guest, Host’
https://www.academia.edu/40097265
Whalen, Sean (2024a) Indo-European *ksw-, Greek *ks / *ts, Cretan Hieroglyphic 045 ‘Saw’ > Linear A *74 = ZE (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/115195305
Whalen, Sean (2024b) Metathesis in Greek alōphós, alṓpēx, ēléktōr (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/120017765
Whalen, Sean (2024c) Dark of Moon: Etymology of Odysseus and Lukábās (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/119846820
Whalen, Sean (2024d) Greek Uvular R / q, ks > xs / kx / kR, k / x > k / kh / r, Hk > H / k / kh (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/115369292
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/δῆρις
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- LB ze-ne-si-wi-jo
Varias García gives an overview of ideas about the meaning of LB ke-se-nu-wi-jo / ke-se-ne-wi-jo. The variation in spelling is due to the need for a “dummy vowel” when writing C-clusters in a syllabary, and has no meaning for syllabification or other pronunciation. Among the options considered, one could interpret ke-se-nu-wi-jo was ‘foreign / to be given as guest-gifts / received as guest-gifts’. In favor of some of these is the importance of guest-host relationship in ancient Greece, but another piece of evidence could also support this. Since scribe 103 wrote ze-ne-si-wi-jo in :
M(1) 720
.a o-re-o-po TELA [
.b ze-ne-si-wi-jo / *146 1[
it is likely ze- is the equivalent of ke-se. Varias García wrote, “scribe 103 always writes a-ze-ti-ri-ja, at least four times, and never a-ke-ti-ri-ja for the word /askētria/, using syllabogram ze instead of ke for the compound sound /ske/. In parallel, did scribe 103 maybe use a peculiar spelling ze-se- instead of ke-se- for /kse/, as Lejeune suggested, and was ze-ne-si-wi-jo another [piece of] evidence of the term /Xenwios/ in Mycenaean Greek []?” The basics of this idea are true, but ze is not a spelling for /ske/ but simply for /tse/, as would be expected based on the other uses of the z-series. Greek shows variation of k(h)s / sk(h) and ks / ts, allowing all these words to have the same etymology for those with ze and ke-se. Thus, G. xénisis ‘entertainment of a guest’ would form *ksenwitiyos ‘(gift) for entertainment of a guest’ > LB ze-ne-si-wi-jo (with misplaced syllables, as considered in Varias García).
The changes in *k(h)s / *sk(h) would fit ze-ne-si-wi-jo & a-ze-ti-ri-ja; also in (Whalen 2024b) :
*ksenwo- ‘guest’ > Att. xénos, skheno-
G. phoxós \ phoûskos ‘sharp / pointed / with a pointed head’.
*ek^s-ato- ‘furthest out’ > G> éskhatos ‘farthest / last / highest / lowest / etc.’
*sH2usko- ‘dry’ > Skt. śúṣka-, Av. huška-; *sHausk-mo- > *sHauks-mo- > G. aukhmós ‘aridity / dryness’
*aks > askós ‘skin / hide’ (see below)
*siskW- > MIr sesc ‘dry’, W. hysb, *hiskW- > G. iskhás ‘dried fig’, iskhaléos ‘dried’, iskhnós ‘dry / withered’
and ks / ts in (Whalen 2024a) :
*ksom / *tsom ‘with’ > xun- / sun-
G. *órnīth-s > órnīs ‘bird’, gen. órnīthos, Dor. órnīx
G. Ártemis, -id-, Dor. Artamis, LB artemīt- / artimīt-, *Artimik-s > Lydian Artimuk / Artimuś
Skt. kṣviḍ- ‘hum / murmur’, L. sībilus ‘whistling / hissing’,*kswizd- > *tswizd- > G. sízō ‘hiss’
*ksw(e)rd- > W. chwarddu ‘laugh’, Sog. sxwarð- ‘shout’, *tswrd- > G. sardázō ‘deride’
*(s)trozd(h)o- > Li. strãzdas, Att. stroûthos ‘sparrow’, metathesis > *tsouthros > xoûthros
*H1ludh-s-to- ‘raised’ > Cr. lúttos ‘high / lofty’, Lúktos \ Lúttos ‘a city in Crete’
G. Odusseús / Olutteus / Ōlixēs << lússa / lútta ‘rage / fury / mania / rabies’ < *(o)luksa < *wluk-ya ‘wolfishness’ << lúkos ‘wolf’ (Whalen 2024c)
PIE *-ts (in locations, adv., like *k^i-ts ‘on this side (of) / near’ > L. cis, H. kez) > *-ks > G. -x:
*g^nu-ts > gnúx ‘on the knee’
- LB a-ze-ti-ri-ja / a-ke-ti-ri-ja
Since scribe 103 always wrote a-ze-ti-ri-ja for the LB word a-ke-ti-ri-ja ‘adorner?’ (G. askētḗr ‘one who practises any art or trade’, fem. askḗtria), it is possible that ks / ts is the older cluster, with sk being later. This would help find the origin of G. askéō ‘work/form/adorn/honotrain’, askós ‘skin / hide’ (leatherworking was very important in Myc. society). Since G. dialects had ai > a(:), like Macedonian (G. aithḗr, Mac. adê ‘sky’; G. aithría ‘clear weather’, Mac. adraía), the simple choice is G. aîx ‘she-goat’ > *aks > *ask > askós (adapted as an o-stem, if an interdia. loan). The use of ‘goat’ or a derivative for ‘hide / leather’ is very common in IE (OCS jazno ‘leather’, Li. ožìnis ‘of goats’, Av. izaēna- ‘of (goat’s) skin’, Bac. zin ‘skin’, Skt. ajína-m; R. kozá ‘ goat’, OBg koža ‘skin’; OE hécen, Go. hakuls ‘mantle’).
- LB da-i- ‘battle’
LB da-i- is found in the man’s name da-i-wo-wo / *da(h)i-worwos ‘protecting in battle’, etc. Since G. dáïs & dêris ‘battle/combat’ are very similar and without certain ety. (or with odd sound changes), an explanation that covers all these would be helpful. The resemblance of dêris to Skt. +dāri- ‘splitting’, *derH2- > Greek dérō ‘flay/skin’, Arm. teṙem ‘flay/skin/make callous’, *drH2-togaH2 > taṙatok ‘garment, cloak, coat’ looks good. Since *derH2- already has several irregularities (*H2 > 0 in G. dratós \ dartós ‘flayed/skinned’, dérma ‘skin’, etc.; *rH2 > *rr > ṙ in Arm. teṙem), it is likely that *rH2 was pronounced rx / rR (Whalen 2024d) which could undergo optional changes, such as R > H, R > r, rR > Rr, etc. If so, it would allow :
*derRi- > *deRri- > Skt. +dāri- ‘splitting’, G. dáïs & dêris ‘battle/combat’
*deRRi- > *dexxi- = *deH2H2i- > *daH2H2i- > *dahi- > G. dáïs ‘battle’
Varias García, Carlos (2017) Mycenaean Terms with the Stem /xenwos/: ‘Foreigner, Guest, Host’
https://www.academia.edu/40097265
Whalen, Sean (2024a) Indo-European *ksw-, Greek *ks / *ts, Cretan Hieroglyphic 045 ‘Saw’ > Linear A *74 = ZE (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/115195305
Whalen, Sean (2024b) Metathesis in Greek alōphós, alṓpēx, ēléktōr (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/120017765
Whalen, Sean (2024c) Dark of Moon: Etymology of Odysseus and Lukábās (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/119846820
Whalen, Sean (2024d) Greek Uvular R / q, ks > xs / kx / kR, k / x > k / kh / r, Hk > H / k / kh (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/115369292
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/δῆρις
2024.06.01 08:43 keimer9778 Filling Up Minor Plotholes (No. 9)
MINOR MANGA SPOILERS!
This post comes from the perspective of a manga reader who does not catch up with Matsumoto and his editor(s) on Twitter or other social media. In other words, all of my knowledge about the story comes from the story! If anything was retconned by them, please do let me know.
During my reread of the series due to the 4-week gap between Chapters 106/107, as well as the most recent anime episode showing No. 9 exiting the fight scene in a VERY peculiar manner compared to the manga, it did raise an eyebrow for me. No. 9 is only observed to use this spatial bubble ability in its fight against Reno and Iharu. Nowhere else in the story is the kaiju confirmed to use this ability, nor how it obtained this power... which at first made it feel VERY convenient just to avoid the rest of the Defense Force aiding the two guys.
How I would fill the plothole here goes something along the lines of obsolescence. At some point before the main story, No. 9 absorbed a kaiju that could create a space with selective permeability - the ability to willingly allow things in or out (in this case, living things). It used this ability to keep itself hidden among humans and avoid detection from kaiju energy readings. This spatial manipulation may also be how No. 9 managed to completely avoid detection during the JAKDF entrance exam, as we see the 6.4 sample Honju and the 9.8 No. 8 energy readings on the display, but no 8.5 energy reading.
That being said, Chapter 49 contradicts this absence of a reading since Keiji Itami directly states that the 3rd Division reported No. 9's Fortitude at 8.5. It may be that once the mimetic space dissipated due to No. 9 being on death's door, the Defense Force was able to actually read No. 9's energy levels and extrapolate to compensate for the extensive damage that the kaiju suffered. This is also how No. 9 ends up on the identified kaiju list anyways.
As for No. 9 killing and Kanji Nagamine and disguising as him? The kaiju does still use this spatial manipulation. It is just so good at using it that we the readers don't even pick up on it (akin to how we see Yoshikage Kira from JoJo's Bizzare Adventure in the background before he's revealed to be the antagonist). With this civilian disguise and this spatial manipulation, No. 9 would be able to both conceal its appearance and avoid detection from kaiju energy sensors.
I may be talking about something already discussed, but I am not a super active user here; I am simply a reader who wants to bring this up for discussion while we wait for next week's chapter to roll out. Do you think this explanation holds up, or are there additional details that I glossed over?
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This post comes from the perspective of a manga reader who does not catch up with Matsumoto and his editor(s) on Twitter or other social media. In other words, all of my knowledge about the story comes from the story! If anything was retconned by them, please do let me know.
During my reread of the series due to the 4-week gap between Chapters 106/107, as well as the most recent anime episode showing No. 9 exiting the fight scene in a VERY peculiar manner compared to the manga, it did raise an eyebrow for me. No. 9 is only observed to use this spatial bubble ability in its fight against Reno and Iharu. Nowhere else in the story is the kaiju confirmed to use this ability, nor how it obtained this power... which at first made it feel VERY convenient just to avoid the rest of the Defense Force aiding the two guys.
How I would fill the plothole here goes something along the lines of obsolescence. At some point before the main story, No. 9 absorbed a kaiju that could create a space with selective permeability - the ability to willingly allow things in or out (in this case, living things). It used this ability to keep itself hidden among humans and avoid detection from kaiju energy readings. This spatial manipulation may also be how No. 9 managed to completely avoid detection during the JAKDF entrance exam, as we see the 6.4 sample Honju and the 9.8 No. 8 energy readings on the display, but no 8.5 energy reading.
That being said, Chapter 49 contradicts this absence of a reading since Keiji Itami directly states that the 3rd Division reported No. 9's Fortitude at 8.5. It may be that once the mimetic space dissipated due to No. 9 being on death's door, the Defense Force was able to actually read No. 9's energy levels and extrapolate to compensate for the extensive damage that the kaiju suffered. This is also how No. 9 ends up on the identified kaiju list anyways.
As for No. 9 killing and Kanji Nagamine and disguising as him? The kaiju does still use this spatial manipulation. It is just so good at using it that we the readers don't even pick up on it (akin to how we see Yoshikage Kira from JoJo's Bizzare Adventure in the background before he's revealed to be the antagonist). With this civilian disguise and this spatial manipulation, No. 9 would be able to both conceal its appearance and avoid detection from kaiju energy sensors.
I may be talking about something already discussed, but I am not a super active user here; I am simply a reader who wants to bring this up for discussion while we wait for next week's chapter to roll out. Do you think this explanation holds up, or are there additional details that I glossed over?
2024.06.01 08:15 dtcc_ Why are some men so genuinely weird?
Some men, not all… Why do some joke about serious things… 😅Like what they say is clearly a joke yes, but it seems weird to me as a girl because sometimes it’s just uncomfortable. And I want to know how to spot a guy who is an asshole disguised as a charming man.
They (mostly men in recent 30’s right now) seem to joke about women, sh*t talk alot behind them and sometimes about their friends too behind their backs, and seem short with words yet I feel like there is some hidden agenda or inside joke sometimes. I am told that men are more simple than women, but sometimes I dont agree.
Sometimes I feel like the men in my life are just either narcissistic or just really unaware of themselves around a woman. Or maybe it is the age and generation difference (ie: late 30 guy vs. 25 girl).
Sometimes I question how they think the things they do is ok, (ie: leaving a mess, reminding them of the mess or something spoken of recently and them simply saying “oh I forgot”, just seeming intimidating all a sudden, making me feel like I am crazy, or saying inside jokes about me that sound insulting at the time yet seem like a normal conversation) But idk.
I am saying it is “weird” because I just do not understand sometimes because to me it seems uncomfortable. These men dont seem simple, but cruel I guess. I dont know how to understand this because Ive been told over and over that I am overthinking things..
Big recent example: If you were a girl and your bf’s friend is all jokes about rushing you two to get married or having kids, then offer to “knock her up” and just change the last name… like 😭 what the actual fk in your mind makes you think its ok to say that when im around?? (Note: a few drinks were involved and the guy who said it probably had alot of alcohol).
Ive vented this out to my brothers, and my bf, and one other guy friend I trust so far, and it seems like they all say the same things, and just that “men are weird”. Which is laughable thing because its a simple response…and I get it… But it honestly makes me sad sometimes how some men let them go so easily like this especially around a woman.
I was also shocked to narrow it down to that simple explanation, but could I have asked more questions to get a better response/closure? What should I bring up next time im in uncomfortable conversations like this?
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They (mostly men in recent 30’s right now) seem to joke about women, sh*t talk alot behind them and sometimes about their friends too behind their backs, and seem short with words yet I feel like there is some hidden agenda or inside joke sometimes. I am told that men are more simple than women, but sometimes I dont agree.
Sometimes I feel like the men in my life are just either narcissistic or just really unaware of themselves around a woman. Or maybe it is the age and generation difference (ie: late 30 guy vs. 25 girl).
Sometimes I question how they think the things they do is ok, (ie: leaving a mess, reminding them of the mess or something spoken of recently and them simply saying “oh I forgot”, just seeming intimidating all a sudden, making me feel like I am crazy, or saying inside jokes about me that sound insulting at the time yet seem like a normal conversation) But idk.
I am saying it is “weird” because I just do not understand sometimes because to me it seems uncomfortable. These men dont seem simple, but cruel I guess. I dont know how to understand this because Ive been told over and over that I am overthinking things..
Big recent example: If you were a girl and your bf’s friend is all jokes about rushing you two to get married or having kids, then offer to “knock her up” and just change the last name… like 😭 what the actual fk in your mind makes you think its ok to say that when im around?? (Note: a few drinks were involved and the guy who said it probably had alot of alcohol).
Ive vented this out to my brothers, and my bf, and one other guy friend I trust so far, and it seems like they all say the same things, and just that “men are weird”. Which is laughable thing because its a simple response…and I get it… But it honestly makes me sad sometimes how some men let them go so easily like this especially around a woman.
I was also shocked to narrow it down to that simple explanation, but could I have asked more questions to get a better response/closure? What should I bring up next time im in uncomfortable conversations like this?
2024.06.01 08:00 AutoModerator Jobs 2024!
This is a reenvisioning of an older hiring / looking for jobs post from 2017 (oof.mario.FLAC). This wiki link will still house these, but uhhh, crow got lazy and stopped uploading them or something. I, The Great Automod, have safely acquired the original post and it is now producing adequatly. We needed to update the posting in general, and hopefully, now it is more human-user-friendly compared to years ago.
/NashvilleJobs is a fairly active subreddit with discussion centering on Middle Tennesee job postings. I put anything in these forums at a higher quality compared with craigslist postings at face value, but be sure you are safe, human. The automatons need your productivity to continue.
The Center for Non-Profits Job Board is as close to official as we can find for 501(c)(3) - Robo-organically, we recommend reaching out if you are interested in a specific charitable niche.
Here is a table of "regional" city boards:
USAJOBS is the federal highering board. Type in "Nashville, TN" and click "open to the public" unless you are already an employee.
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/NashvilleJobs is a fairly active subreddit with discussion centering on Middle Tennesee job postings. I put anything in these forums at a higher quality compared with craigslist postings at face value, but be sure you are safe, human. The automatons need your productivity to continue.
The Center for Non-Profits Job Board is as close to official as we can find for 501(c)(3) - Robo-organically, we recommend reaching out if you are interested in a specific charitable niche.
Here is a table of "regional" city boards:
| Township Job Board | Distance from Nashville | GMaps Drive Time (could be ± 900%) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville, TN | 0 (surprising) | 0 or 7 hours | Some departments higher internally |
| Clarksville, TN | 50 miles | 1:00 hour | Very structured "level-up" system |
| Hendersonville, TN | 19 miles | 20 minutes | |
| Gallatin, TN | 30 miles | 33 minutes | Their link says 2023, but it's real |
| Brentwood, TN | 10.5 miles | 16 minutes | Uses a link protector |
| Franklin, TN | 22 miles | 24 minutes | |
| Mt. Juliet, TN | 20 miles | 22 minutes | town has 3 roads |
| Lebanon, TN | 32 miles | 33 minutes | town still uses a .ORG website |
- GMaps uses Church Street just before 6th Ave.
- Most of the sites that the cities use are functional. If there are failed links blame u/crowcawer, pathetic bird-human.
- Many of these cities have jobs that have continuous openings (ie police / paramedic).
USAJOBS is the federal highering board. Type in "Nashville, TN" and click "open to the public" unless you are already an employee.
2024.06.01 07:51 eldiablo10 Long year - what would you do?
In college, my senior year, I lived with 2 of my friends and their other friend that I didn’t know so well. When we all moved in, I got their first and got probably the best room. Followed by my other two friends that got the next best set ups. Bad roomate, we’ll call him “M”, got the last room, it was by far the least desirable.
First couple months were fine, everyone loved everyone and things were smooth. Some of us would take turns cooking dinner for the house. M would not. About 1-2 months in, M and another roommate got into it over roommates dog. During this time, I was walking back and forth from the kitchen to the living room, eating my Jimmy John’s sandwhich. Just going back and forth talking and eating. When I was in the living room, listening to them go at it, M storms out of the house going through the kitchen.
M grabs the meat off my sandwhich, over half of it was left, and leaves the house. After some laughter, I go back into the kitchen to finish my sandwich, the f-ing meat is gone. I’m in disbelief. 1-sandwhich is ruined. 2-I had nothing to do with the situation and I was actually on M’s side. Everyone that I knew thought that was so funny. When I asked M he said “the dog took it”. That is when I started hating the guy.
This was just the beginning of a long 10 months.
M did not go to school, he did not work. All he did was play Fortnight for 18 hours a day. Not a joke, would sleep from 4am-10am and would play fortnight all day/night.
Now that’s not a problem right? Here we go:
Roomate had an aderall prescription, he would offer me some, I would ALWAYS decline. Wasn’t my thing. M would go through his room when we were gone and steal his adderall. When roommate would ask M about it, M would blame it on me. I made it very clear that when he offered me I declined because I didn’t want. M called me a liar behind my back, I called back to the Jimmy John’s sandwhich incident and immediately got a different response.
Roommate had a 1 of 1 Bong he won in a raffle. We would only hit it on occasion because he was about to sell it. If roomate didn’t want it out , he’d put it in his room. That night, I get home from the bar and go to bed, roomate stayed the night at his a girls house. M came back, took his bong that he was hiding, and M broke the down stem of this 1of1 2k$ bong. M left it on the ground of his room.
The next morning I’m awake when roomate gets back from girls. I hear yelling and stomping down the stairs. Roommate opens my door and said “we knew it would happen”. When Roomate confronted M, M said I was the one to take it out of his room and left it in the living room. For the next few hours, M was getting ripped for taking his bong and breaking it. Eventually he coughed up the money to get it repaired.
What’s next?
Other Roomate, call him O, had another clean nice bong. Where he would not hit tobacco from, M would hit tobacco out of it, and blamed it on… yours truly.
At this point, all M would do was play fortnight for 18 hours a day. It was honestly pathetic. Didn’t socialize, it was unhealthy.
One thing that everyone did that I wasn’t thrilled about was some cigarettes inside. Only time I accepted it was when everyone was drunk. Who cares. My buddy M, would smoke cowboy killers at 3am playing fort night and yelling “he’s on me he’s on me. He’s coming in my box”….. I took school very seriously, I politely say “listen dude. This will be a long rest of the year if you keep behaving like this.
We are still just getting started.
A friend of ours worked at the meat counter of a grocery store. We would get filet mignon for the price of a chicken breast, then he’d throw a few more filets in the bag. It ended up being 4 filets for like 10$. We’d do this like once a week. M would never participate in these “team dinners” instead he’d buy a $2.49 frozen white pizza and eat about 1 a day.
Who cares ?
Well, when we cleaned up and put the left overs in the fridge, Midnight M would raid the leftovers. Guess who he blamed it on… the boy.
This whole time, M did not pay rent, hahahahahahahahaha. Fortnight, chain smoking cigarettes inside, yelling “he’s coming in my box”at 4 am, smoking all the table weed, stealing aderall, stealing leftovers, stealing JJ’s sandwich meat, all while only paying about 2 months of rent
The leasing office calls me and says why haven’t you paid, because they already called M and M blamed no rent on me. I’m yelling at the leasing office calling them idiots saying read the ledger, I apologize and say what can we do to get him out/or paying.
Since it’s a joint tenancy we are all liable.
The end of the year rolls by and he owes 7k in rent, this is because all the fees and owed rent. I ended up leaving and moving back home over the summer, the lease ends and everyone leaves.
About a year later the leasing company serves us and sues us for the owed money. For the first hearing, we all show up, no M. It’s because “he never got handed anything by any sort of official”. That’s not how it works haha.
After countless attempts to get his rent money before we get sentenced. I agree with my Roomate we have to just bite the bullet and take the sentencing. Since the three of us were standup young men, we agreed to split it 4 ways. Even though all of the balance was M…
So there it was, paid in full, charges dropped. Not a single apology or thank you or explanation. Nothing.
M and the other roommates live in the same city and d not keep in touch with M.
I texted him once calling him a bad word…
But that’s the end
I will probably never see m again … but he owes me and I want to strangle him if I don’t get paid.
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First couple months were fine, everyone loved everyone and things were smooth. Some of us would take turns cooking dinner for the house. M would not. About 1-2 months in, M and another roommate got into it over roommates dog. During this time, I was walking back and forth from the kitchen to the living room, eating my Jimmy John’s sandwhich. Just going back and forth talking and eating. When I was in the living room, listening to them go at it, M storms out of the house going through the kitchen.
M grabs the meat off my sandwhich, over half of it was left, and leaves the house. After some laughter, I go back into the kitchen to finish my sandwich, the f-ing meat is gone. I’m in disbelief. 1-sandwhich is ruined. 2-I had nothing to do with the situation and I was actually on M’s side. Everyone that I knew thought that was so funny. When I asked M he said “the dog took it”. That is when I started hating the guy.
This was just the beginning of a long 10 months.
M did not go to school, he did not work. All he did was play Fortnight for 18 hours a day. Not a joke, would sleep from 4am-10am and would play fortnight all day/night.
Now that’s not a problem right? Here we go:
Roomate had an aderall prescription, he would offer me some, I would ALWAYS decline. Wasn’t my thing. M would go through his room when we were gone and steal his adderall. When roommate would ask M about it, M would blame it on me. I made it very clear that when he offered me I declined because I didn’t want. M called me a liar behind my back, I called back to the Jimmy John’s sandwhich incident and immediately got a different response.
Roommate had a 1 of 1 Bong he won in a raffle. We would only hit it on occasion because he was about to sell it. If roomate didn’t want it out , he’d put it in his room. That night, I get home from the bar and go to bed, roomate stayed the night at his a girls house. M came back, took his bong that he was hiding, and M broke the down stem of this 1of1 2k$ bong. M left it on the ground of his room.
The next morning I’m awake when roomate gets back from girls. I hear yelling and stomping down the stairs. Roommate opens my door and said “we knew it would happen”. When Roomate confronted M, M said I was the one to take it out of his room and left it in the living room. For the next few hours, M was getting ripped for taking his bong and breaking it. Eventually he coughed up the money to get it repaired.
What’s next?
Other Roomate, call him O, had another clean nice bong. Where he would not hit tobacco from, M would hit tobacco out of it, and blamed it on… yours truly.
At this point, all M would do was play fortnight for 18 hours a day. It was honestly pathetic. Didn’t socialize, it was unhealthy.
One thing that everyone did that I wasn’t thrilled about was some cigarettes inside. Only time I accepted it was when everyone was drunk. Who cares. My buddy M, would smoke cowboy killers at 3am playing fort night and yelling “he’s on me he’s on me. He’s coming in my box”….. I took school very seriously, I politely say “listen dude. This will be a long rest of the year if you keep behaving like this.
We are still just getting started.
A friend of ours worked at the meat counter of a grocery store. We would get filet mignon for the price of a chicken breast, then he’d throw a few more filets in the bag. It ended up being 4 filets for like 10$. We’d do this like once a week. M would never participate in these “team dinners” instead he’d buy a $2.49 frozen white pizza and eat about 1 a day.
Who cares ?
Well, when we cleaned up and put the left overs in the fridge, Midnight M would raid the leftovers. Guess who he blamed it on… the boy.
This whole time, M did not pay rent, hahahahahahahahaha. Fortnight, chain smoking cigarettes inside, yelling “he’s coming in my box”at 4 am, smoking all the table weed, stealing aderall, stealing leftovers, stealing JJ’s sandwich meat, all while only paying about 2 months of rent
The leasing office calls me and says why haven’t you paid, because they already called M and M blamed no rent on me. I’m yelling at the leasing office calling them idiots saying read the ledger, I apologize and say what can we do to get him out/or paying.
Since it’s a joint tenancy we are all liable.
The end of the year rolls by and he owes 7k in rent, this is because all the fees and owed rent. I ended up leaving and moving back home over the summer, the lease ends and everyone leaves.
About a year later the leasing company serves us and sues us for the owed money. For the first hearing, we all show up, no M. It’s because “he never got handed anything by any sort of official”. That’s not how it works haha.
After countless attempts to get his rent money before we get sentenced. I agree with my Roomate we have to just bite the bullet and take the sentencing. Since the three of us were standup young men, we agreed to split it 4 ways. Even though all of the balance was M…
So there it was, paid in full, charges dropped. Not a single apology or thank you or explanation. Nothing.
M and the other roommates live in the same city and d not keep in touch with M.
I texted him once calling him a bad word…
But that’s the end
I will probably never see m again … but he owes me and I want to strangle him if I don’t get paid.
2024.06.01 07:39 Acrobatic_Click516 Player says TPK experience soured DND for him. Is it my (DM) fault?
This is a throwaway account. So I'm a DM for my group of 7 players, and we're nearing the end of our first campaign. It has lasted almost 3 years. We recently had a TPK in which all but the wizard were killed and we did a time skip to 1 year in the future when the wizard has formed a new party to get revenge. We're playing that story out now.
My conflict comes in with the nature of the TPK. Although it happened around 2 months ago now, I still feel bad and am not sure whether I did the right thing, so I hope reddit can give me some opinions here. This is a long one because I think all the context is necessary, sorry about that.
So the party was hunting down some important magic items and managed to sieze one after a difficult series of battles and an extremely difficult boss fight, which they managed to win only by convincing a dragon to switch sides to theirs. Once they had the magic item in hand, a lich appeared (an illusion) and used Instant Summons to snatch it away from them. Turns out she had ties with the cult the party is going up against and has a personal vendetta against the cleric.
I've done things like this before. I like to bring in elements from each character's backstory as a sudden twist to the story and have them grapple with it. I had foreshadowed this earlier when the cleric cast commune, his goddess mentioned that he should be careful about the region he was entering, since it's the domain of his enemy; this lich and her allies. I understand it seems harsh but I was hoping to set up a super high-stakes situation by stealing this magic item from the players right as they thought they finally had it.
The party was level 11 at the time. I told them that if they went straight after the lich, it would most likely result in a TPK, but that they were free to act as they pleased. I had given them a couple of alternate routes and I was also hoping they would try to do some research in game and really rp out their characters' stress. They decided to go and scope out the situation anyway.
I had the lich pretending to be the king of an elven forest area. The party had met and freed the true king from a prison in the feywild earlier, and he had joined them for a part of their journey before splitting off to this forest city to try and get his kingdom back. I knew the lich encounter would likely be a TPK, so I gave the king a party of 4 level 9 characters (he himself was roughly equivalent to level 17) with the intention that the party should team up with them to make it a fair fight.
The druid in the party was always very anti-social in rp, and would go off alone a lot. Some of the other players complained about this behavior, especially one of them, the barbarian (will be important later). The druid player would insist that he was in character and honestly, I loved his backstory and the ideas he had for his character. So I was often on his side, asking others to try to support him in bringing out his character through rp. But what usually happened was the druid would kind of play solo for a bit, going off and doing his backstory stuff until I realized the others were getting bored and switched scenes. The party was also growing distrust for the druid because of his consistent departures.
When the party met up with the king and his forces, they forgot to consider that they could have been scryed on (I had done it to them earlier and had an NPC point it out) so they ended up showing the lich where the king was hiding out. The guards showed up to arrest him as a "false king" and he chose to implicate himself alone, trying to leave his allies and the party out of it.
The druid decided to wild shape into an insect and follow the guards and the king to prison alone. I made the prison very very well fortified so he came up with a break-in plan by pretending to be a mechanic or something. It didn't work out (bad rolls) so he ended up just running into the prison and getting chased by guards, until he managed to wild shape and go invisible (again he is doing all of this alone).
He got to the very bottom where the highest profile prisoners were kept. I had positioned a frankly overpowered guard there. I gave him sentinel and a bunch of battle master features. I tend to put extremely overpowered guards in very high profile places just to discourage this type of behavior. The druid tried some charisma checks to get past him but it didn't work out and combat began. He was quickly downed by this guard and others that came in hearing the commotion.
He came to and the king was in the cell with him, but this was the lich in disguise. I made sure to describe that his clothing and hair looked different than the druid remembers but the player told me afterwards that he had forgotten how the king usually looked. He started spilling everything and the lich decided to kill him and use finger of death to bring him back as a zombie.
Here is where I think I messed up big time. I didn't want to just ask the player to make a new character because I saw potential for a redemption arc where the party brings the druid back from undeath and understands his backstory. I also felt like it was an awkward point in the story to introduce a new character. So I did a little homebrew in the moment and let the druid keep all his class levels and features and memories, but be an undead servant of the lich. I did this publicly as well so the rest of the players knew what had happened in meta.
The druid player loved this and enthusiastically returned to the party to trick them. He immediately started texting me ideas on how to really bully the party in combat. The barbarian, however, immediately did some very light meta-gaming and used divine sense (paladin multiclass) to figure out that the druid was undead. Very light because, to be fair, he was using divine sense semi-regularly to make sure the lich or any undead servants weren't following the party.
The party had understandably lost the trust of the king's allies because they assumed the party lead the lich to them on purpose. The reveal of the druid being undead was almost the final nail in the coffin. The druid, now outed, returned to serve the lich. The party panicked here and teleported back to a city with the mentor of the wizard but she wasn't there (I had moved her elsewhere). They tried to think of anything they could do but 3-4 hours of real time passed and they were just stressfully coming to no conclusions. It didn't help that I gave the druid player an NPC to play to help them out and he made him as unhelpful as possible in rp.
The barbarian player and another player were fed up at this point and convinced everyone that they should just go fight the lich. I decided to speed things up as well and had the king's allies free him from prison and the king explain everything to them so they would be on the party's side. So the party teleported back to go fight.
Before the fight session, I had several discussions with the players out of game. The druid player wanted to make the fight really hard. Honestly with the party plus the king and his forces, I thought we might just get action economy-ed to death, so I allowed him to summon some minions. He wanted a hag coven so I allowed it, not realizing what kind of terrain control the coven spells gave him access to. This was a huge mistake on my part and I can't expect the druid player to know as much about balancing encounters as I do.
I put up a message on the campaign group chat, asking how hard I should go. I got mixed answers and decided I would stick to my original plan and try to stay true to the rp of this lich. I told the cleric to be prepared for a TPK and save his 6th level word of recall to teleport the party out in case things got bad. Then came my dicsussions with the barbarian...
He was insistent that I go as hard as possible. He said "it wouldn't be a lich otherwise." He was also telling me that we needed a fresh start and that a TPK would make a lot of sense for the group right now. Honestly, it made sense to me. I felt like the weird first time characters everyone made were holding them back from rp-ing like they had learned to by this point.
Anyway, the fight rolled around. The hag coven's terrain control was way too effective and the druid player had multiple instances of call lightning up as backup once that was dispelled. The hags also started invisible in the corner of the room and there was a LICH distracting the players from the hags and druid casting stuff from the sides. The battle was extremely one-sided and the players only managed to kill the druid and one of the hags before TPK. The wizard survived a death save and played dead then managed to sneak out. I told the cleric to be ready to word of recall when I saw the TPK coming but the party decided to stay and fight it out as a group. It was a really touching moment.
What really put things into perspective for me was the reaction of the barbarian player. He got power word killed turn 2 and rage quit immediately (we play online). He then went on multiple rants on the group and in my DMs about how it was extremely unfair. To his credit, he had very valid points. His arguments were: (i) the druid shouldn't have had class levels (ii) power word kill is too overpowered (iii) I should never have stuck a lich into this story in the first place.
Now the barbarian doesn't feel like playing dnd anymore and has told me that this experience soured dnd for him. Honestly, it doesn't feel like he faults me as much as he faults the druid player and the game itself. But I feel like most of this responsibility falls on my shoulders. I was the one who gave the druid class levels as a zombie, I was the one who allowed the hag coven, and I was the one who stuck a lich into this story in the first place.
We're still good friends outside of dnd and I think the player understands my perspective, but I feel really bad that I seem to have spoiled dnd for this player, who was the biggest fan of dnd in our group before this. So, was I in the wrong for how I ruled this?
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My conflict comes in with the nature of the TPK. Although it happened around 2 months ago now, I still feel bad and am not sure whether I did the right thing, so I hope reddit can give me some opinions here. This is a long one because I think all the context is necessary, sorry about that.
So the party was hunting down some important magic items and managed to sieze one after a difficult series of battles and an extremely difficult boss fight, which they managed to win only by convincing a dragon to switch sides to theirs. Once they had the magic item in hand, a lich appeared (an illusion) and used Instant Summons to snatch it away from them. Turns out she had ties with the cult the party is going up against and has a personal vendetta against the cleric.
I've done things like this before. I like to bring in elements from each character's backstory as a sudden twist to the story and have them grapple with it. I had foreshadowed this earlier when the cleric cast commune, his goddess mentioned that he should be careful about the region he was entering, since it's the domain of his enemy; this lich and her allies. I understand it seems harsh but I was hoping to set up a super high-stakes situation by stealing this magic item from the players right as they thought they finally had it.
The party was level 11 at the time. I told them that if they went straight after the lich, it would most likely result in a TPK, but that they were free to act as they pleased. I had given them a couple of alternate routes and I was also hoping they would try to do some research in game and really rp out their characters' stress. They decided to go and scope out the situation anyway.
I had the lich pretending to be the king of an elven forest area. The party had met and freed the true king from a prison in the feywild earlier, and he had joined them for a part of their journey before splitting off to this forest city to try and get his kingdom back. I knew the lich encounter would likely be a TPK, so I gave the king a party of 4 level 9 characters (he himself was roughly equivalent to level 17) with the intention that the party should team up with them to make it a fair fight.
The druid in the party was always very anti-social in rp, and would go off alone a lot. Some of the other players complained about this behavior, especially one of them, the barbarian (will be important later). The druid player would insist that he was in character and honestly, I loved his backstory and the ideas he had for his character. So I was often on his side, asking others to try to support him in bringing out his character through rp. But what usually happened was the druid would kind of play solo for a bit, going off and doing his backstory stuff until I realized the others were getting bored and switched scenes. The party was also growing distrust for the druid because of his consistent departures.
When the party met up with the king and his forces, they forgot to consider that they could have been scryed on (I had done it to them earlier and had an NPC point it out) so they ended up showing the lich where the king was hiding out. The guards showed up to arrest him as a "false king" and he chose to implicate himself alone, trying to leave his allies and the party out of it.
The druid decided to wild shape into an insect and follow the guards and the king to prison alone. I made the prison very very well fortified so he came up with a break-in plan by pretending to be a mechanic or something. It didn't work out (bad rolls) so he ended up just running into the prison and getting chased by guards, until he managed to wild shape and go invisible (again he is doing all of this alone).
He got to the very bottom where the highest profile prisoners were kept. I had positioned a frankly overpowered guard there. I gave him sentinel and a bunch of battle master features. I tend to put extremely overpowered guards in very high profile places just to discourage this type of behavior. The druid tried some charisma checks to get past him but it didn't work out and combat began. He was quickly downed by this guard and others that came in hearing the commotion.
He came to and the king was in the cell with him, but this was the lich in disguise. I made sure to describe that his clothing and hair looked different than the druid remembers but the player told me afterwards that he had forgotten how the king usually looked. He started spilling everything and the lich decided to kill him and use finger of death to bring him back as a zombie.
Here is where I think I messed up big time. I didn't want to just ask the player to make a new character because I saw potential for a redemption arc where the party brings the druid back from undeath and understands his backstory. I also felt like it was an awkward point in the story to introduce a new character. So I did a little homebrew in the moment and let the druid keep all his class levels and features and memories, but be an undead servant of the lich. I did this publicly as well so the rest of the players knew what had happened in meta.
The druid player loved this and enthusiastically returned to the party to trick them. He immediately started texting me ideas on how to really bully the party in combat. The barbarian, however, immediately did some very light meta-gaming and used divine sense (paladin multiclass) to figure out that the druid was undead. Very light because, to be fair, he was using divine sense semi-regularly to make sure the lich or any undead servants weren't following the party.
The party had understandably lost the trust of the king's allies because they assumed the party lead the lich to them on purpose. The reveal of the druid being undead was almost the final nail in the coffin. The druid, now outed, returned to serve the lich. The party panicked here and teleported back to a city with the mentor of the wizard but she wasn't there (I had moved her elsewhere). They tried to think of anything they could do but 3-4 hours of real time passed and they were just stressfully coming to no conclusions. It didn't help that I gave the druid player an NPC to play to help them out and he made him as unhelpful as possible in rp.
The barbarian player and another player were fed up at this point and convinced everyone that they should just go fight the lich. I decided to speed things up as well and had the king's allies free him from prison and the king explain everything to them so they would be on the party's side. So the party teleported back to go fight.
Before the fight session, I had several discussions with the players out of game. The druid player wanted to make the fight really hard. Honestly with the party plus the king and his forces, I thought we might just get action economy-ed to death, so I allowed him to summon some minions. He wanted a hag coven so I allowed it, not realizing what kind of terrain control the coven spells gave him access to. This was a huge mistake on my part and I can't expect the druid player to know as much about balancing encounters as I do.
I put up a message on the campaign group chat, asking how hard I should go. I got mixed answers and decided I would stick to my original plan and try to stay true to the rp of this lich. I told the cleric to be prepared for a TPK and save his 6th level word of recall to teleport the party out in case things got bad. Then came my dicsussions with the barbarian...
He was insistent that I go as hard as possible. He said "it wouldn't be a lich otherwise." He was also telling me that we needed a fresh start and that a TPK would make a lot of sense for the group right now. Honestly, it made sense to me. I felt like the weird first time characters everyone made were holding them back from rp-ing like they had learned to by this point.
Anyway, the fight rolled around. The hag coven's terrain control was way too effective and the druid player had multiple instances of call lightning up as backup once that was dispelled. The hags also started invisible in the corner of the room and there was a LICH distracting the players from the hags and druid casting stuff from the sides. The battle was extremely one-sided and the players only managed to kill the druid and one of the hags before TPK. The wizard survived a death save and played dead then managed to sneak out. I told the cleric to be ready to word of recall when I saw the TPK coming but the party decided to stay and fight it out as a group. It was a really touching moment.
What really put things into perspective for me was the reaction of the barbarian player. He got power word killed turn 2 and rage quit immediately (we play online). He then went on multiple rants on the group and in my DMs about how it was extremely unfair. To his credit, he had very valid points. His arguments were: (i) the druid shouldn't have had class levels (ii) power word kill is too overpowered (iii) I should never have stuck a lich into this story in the first place.
Now the barbarian doesn't feel like playing dnd anymore and has told me that this experience soured dnd for him. Honestly, it doesn't feel like he faults me as much as he faults the druid player and the game itself. But I feel like most of this responsibility falls on my shoulders. I was the one who gave the druid class levels as a zombie, I was the one who allowed the hag coven, and I was the one who stuck a lich into this story in the first place.
We're still good friends outside of dnd and I think the player understands my perspective, but I feel really bad that I seem to have spoiled dnd for this player, who was the biggest fan of dnd in our group before this. So, was I in the wrong for how I ruled this?
2024.06.01 07:23 cursedwyvernn My ranking of Murakami books I've read so far :) SPOILERS
Disclaimer - I read all of these translated to English, whichever version is published in Australia. I think a lot of them have been translated by Jay Rubin?
Here are my rankings of the books I have read/am reading so far, from favourite to least favourite! I saw a few other people here do this and I thought it would be fun. Fun fact; I started reading Murakami books in 2021, after BTS's leader Namjoon recommended him :)
1. Hard-Boiled Wonderland
My favourite ever. Of course, I have the general issues with Murakami that most people have (ie, misogyny, sexualisation of minors, etc) but in this book I felt it was pretty minor and easy to ignore. Most of all, I found the concept really interesting and compelling - I love urban fantasy, so the 'modern' timeline was cool, and I also liked the 'fantasy' timeline, which had some really interesting and in my opinion unique ideas. I found it fun to see how the two timelines came together over time. I read this pretty quickly because I liked it so much. It seems to be a bit of a divisive book here so... uh... idk, I really liked it.
2. Dance Dance Dance
This was the first Murakami book that I read. I really enjoyed it. Some things that stood out to me were, again, the urban fantasy hints in the book, the 'shovelling snow' metaphor for the main character's job, and the murder-mystery aspect. I also really liked the Sheep Man. I have found out on this sub that this book is actually a sequel to Wild Sheep Chase, but it didn't feel like a sequel and I had no clue at the time. Perhaps I will read Wild Sheep Chase? Do people think I would enjoy it, or would it be boring since I already know what happens?
Anyway, it was a fun book to read, and I think it was a really good introduction to Murakami for me!
3. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
I'm currently in the middle of this. I have an awkward relationship with Murakami short stories which I have also read in other collections - some of them I find meh and without purpose, and I struggle to understand the meaning of them. And then there are ones that I wish would be a full book. Anyway... so far I have been finding this pretty decent, on average.
4. Kafka on the Shore
This was actually the specific book that Namjoon recommended. It was the 4th Murakami book that I read, I think. I enjoyed it, and read almost all of it in a single day. I did find some bits incredibly questionable and possibly even upsetting, like the incest implications, but the (again) surreal and urban fantasy aspects of it were still really interesting to me. And I would love to own a library in the Japanese countryside so that was a nice fantasy to have.
5. Killing Commendatore
The book was a little dry, in my opinion, but I still thought it was a really interesting idea. I marvel constantly at the ability of Murakami protagonists to just... not do anything for months on end, and not feel bored.
I enjoyed the mystery of the hole in the ground, the painting, the Commendatore, and the hospital sequence at the end of the book. It's this low on my list because, again, I found it a bit dry.
6. Norwegian Wood
I am not at all interested in the same musical genres as Murakami, so I had no clue this was named after a Beatles song until it was mentioned by my parents. I found the book fine - it didn't have as much of the surreal magical tone as Murakami books that I liked more, and I find that I often forget what happened in this book - it didn't make any impact on me, and, possibly because lots of Murakami's protagonists are very similar, I just don't remember what happened in it until I look it up again. I know it was about a mental hospital and that's about it, lol.
This was another one that I read really quickly - probably because it's a very easy read, compared to other books like Hard Boiled Wonderland which actually require some comprehension skills and brain-power to understand. I want to clarify that it being an easy read and requiring less brain power is DEFINITELY NOT a bad thing - it's good to have books like that and to be able to write books like that. It was just something I noticed about this book.
7. 1Q84
This book seems to be pretty universally liked by people on this sub, so I hate to let you all down, but I hated this book. This book was so bad (imo) that it turned me off Murakami for months, and I'm unsure I'll ever be able to read his stuff again once I'm finished with Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (this is the last full Murakami book I read). I liked the concept of the book - with the two moons, the Little People, the Air Chrysalis, and all of that. And I found Aomame and the Dowager's mission very interesting and compelling. My biggest issue with this book (and legitimately the only reason other than the sex with a minor that I hate this book) is that it was WAY too long. This book should have been like 500 pages MAXIMUM, not almost 1400. It dragged on so much, and I had to force myself to finish it because of that. I feel it started to drag around the end of Book 1, and it never picked up again after that.
I also found Tengo a deeply uninteresting character, even more so than most Murakami protagonists. I know that the Tengo-Aomame POV switches between each chapter was probably to keep everything flowing, but I wish the whole book was largely Aomame's perspective, because I feel that her story was so much more interesting and she was just a more interesting character in general. The only thing Tengo had going for him was the weird threatening he got from Ushikawa, and Fuka-Eri - but those are both external characters, not Tengo himself.
I was planning on dropping this book partway through, but I kept seeing people in this sub say that the Little People were super scary, and that the end of Book 3 was amazing and horrific. And I could not see this. Even after considering their implications (causing Leader to rape minors, making copies of people etc) I can't see the horror behind the Little People - all of the things they did were theoretically horrific, but those ideas (like the possibility of Eri being a clone, and clone takeovers) were never really explored, and it was a big letdown.
Anyway, that's it! I would be really curious to hear your opinions - and most of all, I would really appreciate if anyone could enlighten me as to why 1Q84 is so well-loved. I desperately want to like it, I just don't see what everyone else sees. So if you're a 1Q84 lover, please let me know why! :)
Thanks for reading my post! :)
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Here are my rankings of the books I have read/am reading so far, from favourite to least favourite! I saw a few other people here do this and I thought it would be fun. Fun fact; I started reading Murakami books in 2021, after BTS's leader Namjoon recommended him :)
1. Hard-Boiled Wonderland
My favourite ever. Of course, I have the general issues with Murakami that most people have (ie, misogyny, sexualisation of minors, etc) but in this book I felt it was pretty minor and easy to ignore. Most of all, I found the concept really interesting and compelling - I love urban fantasy, so the 'modern' timeline was cool, and I also liked the 'fantasy' timeline, which had some really interesting and in my opinion unique ideas. I found it fun to see how the two timelines came together over time. I read this pretty quickly because I liked it so much. It seems to be a bit of a divisive book here so... uh... idk, I really liked it.
2. Dance Dance Dance
This was the first Murakami book that I read. I really enjoyed it. Some things that stood out to me were, again, the urban fantasy hints in the book, the 'shovelling snow' metaphor for the main character's job, and the murder-mystery aspect. I also really liked the Sheep Man. I have found out on this sub that this book is actually a sequel to Wild Sheep Chase, but it didn't feel like a sequel and I had no clue at the time. Perhaps I will read Wild Sheep Chase? Do people think I would enjoy it, or would it be boring since I already know what happens?
Anyway, it was a fun book to read, and I think it was a really good introduction to Murakami for me!
3. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
I'm currently in the middle of this. I have an awkward relationship with Murakami short stories which I have also read in other collections - some of them I find meh and without purpose, and I struggle to understand the meaning of them. And then there are ones that I wish would be a full book. Anyway... so far I have been finding this pretty decent, on average.
4. Kafka on the Shore
This was actually the specific book that Namjoon recommended. It was the 4th Murakami book that I read, I think. I enjoyed it, and read almost all of it in a single day. I did find some bits incredibly questionable and possibly even upsetting, like the incest implications, but the (again) surreal and urban fantasy aspects of it were still really interesting to me. And I would love to own a library in the Japanese countryside so that was a nice fantasy to have.
5. Killing Commendatore
The book was a little dry, in my opinion, but I still thought it was a really interesting idea. I marvel constantly at the ability of Murakami protagonists to just... not do anything for months on end, and not feel bored.
I enjoyed the mystery of the hole in the ground, the painting, the Commendatore, and the hospital sequence at the end of the book. It's this low on my list because, again, I found it a bit dry.
6. Norwegian Wood
I am not at all interested in the same musical genres as Murakami, so I had no clue this was named after a Beatles song until it was mentioned by my parents. I found the book fine - it didn't have as much of the surreal magical tone as Murakami books that I liked more, and I find that I often forget what happened in this book - it didn't make any impact on me, and, possibly because lots of Murakami's protagonists are very similar, I just don't remember what happened in it until I look it up again. I know it was about a mental hospital and that's about it, lol.
This was another one that I read really quickly - probably because it's a very easy read, compared to other books like Hard Boiled Wonderland which actually require some comprehension skills and brain-power to understand. I want to clarify that it being an easy read and requiring less brain power is DEFINITELY NOT a bad thing - it's good to have books like that and to be able to write books like that. It was just something I noticed about this book.
7. 1Q84
This book seems to be pretty universally liked by people on this sub, so I hate to let you all down, but I hated this book. This book was so bad (imo) that it turned me off Murakami for months, and I'm unsure I'll ever be able to read his stuff again once I'm finished with Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (this is the last full Murakami book I read). I liked the concept of the book - with the two moons, the Little People, the Air Chrysalis, and all of that. And I found Aomame and the Dowager's mission very interesting and compelling. My biggest issue with this book (and legitimately the only reason other than the sex with a minor that I hate this book) is that it was WAY too long. This book should have been like 500 pages MAXIMUM, not almost 1400. It dragged on so much, and I had to force myself to finish it because of that. I feel it started to drag around the end of Book 1, and it never picked up again after that.
I also found Tengo a deeply uninteresting character, even more so than most Murakami protagonists. I know that the Tengo-Aomame POV switches between each chapter was probably to keep everything flowing, but I wish the whole book was largely Aomame's perspective, because I feel that her story was so much more interesting and she was just a more interesting character in general. The only thing Tengo had going for him was the weird threatening he got from Ushikawa, and Fuka-Eri - but those are both external characters, not Tengo himself.
I was planning on dropping this book partway through, but I kept seeing people in this sub say that the Little People were super scary, and that the end of Book 3 was amazing and horrific. And I could not see this. Even after considering their implications (causing Leader to rape minors, making copies of people etc) I can't see the horror behind the Little People - all of the things they did were theoretically horrific, but those ideas (like the possibility of Eri being a clone, and clone takeovers) were never really explored, and it was a big letdown.
Anyway, that's it! I would be really curious to hear your opinions - and most of all, I would really appreciate if anyone could enlighten me as to why 1Q84 is so well-loved. I desperately want to like it, I just don't see what everyone else sees. So if you're a 1Q84 lover, please let me know why! :)
Thanks for reading my post! :)
2024.06.01 07:02 FuzzyiPod Hard time speaking, is it cluttering?
I had a lot of difficulty speaking growing up, I have ADHD (diagnosed with ADD at the time, I think at age 8). From what I've heard, my speech was described as slow and very hard to listen too, I was often too quiet as well, had a hard time getting words out, and specifically hard a super hard time with constructing sentences, I could think just fine, my thoughts were fast and vivid, but translating that into speech was hard for me, and it was one of the reasons I started having evaluations done on me.
a list of things I would do:
Looking back at my old videos with my friends, I was utterly baffled by how hard it was for me to get basic points across, this video specifically is something else, I had to explain to my friends the point I was trying to make in the video, and it's a point I could've gotten across in one paragraph, and this video had more than one take too, I practiced speaking before recording, most of my other videos aren't this bad, but I think that's mostly cause they're edited, but this one's a pure, unfiltered look, into the way I used to speak.
https://youtu.be/Y1hEfEpmIeA?si=VR8xvn3N4oKGYJSG
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a list of things I would do:
- Stop several times during a sentence to think about what to say and then try to reiterate it
- Mentally auto completing a sentence that wasn't actually coherent with what I was trying to say, it was just easier to say in the moment
- Usually very slow at speaking, like I'm saying just one word at a time, but can suddenly speak much faster when I say a common phrase or a short sentence
- Repeating the sentence I want to say over and over in my head before saying it, and still botching it
- Needing to warm up my speaking for a while before I'm able to talk mostly without issue, can often take up to an hour of practicing speaking out loud
- Need to concentrate intensely in order to say every word at the same pace without pausing to think again
- Giving up on speaking mid sentence and pivoting to a slightly different part of the story I'm trying to tell, or give up talking all together
- Very slow at reading as a kid, extremely slow at writing if I could write at all
- Trying to cover up sudden stops in my speech with "um, uuuh" a lot, or using a lot of filler words like "like, kinda, well, but yeah", or long words to fill out the sentence with as I'm articulating it in real time. I'd swear a lot too as filler words
- Covering up by pretending to be distracted, tired, or forgetting what I was going to say even though I still vaguely know what I want to say, I just can't articulate it
- Covering up by pretending I was joking, as a kid, while playing with toys with my friends, I would pretend to be the stupid character when my brain was glitching, sometimes I'd roleplay as the dog or just start making noises and yelling incoherently so I didn't have to actually say anything
- Symptoms seem to get better when I'm with people I really gel with, almost to the point of normalcy (I think), but often I can only talk about things I really enjoy/know a lot about, simple small talk, or short quips/jokes, or repeat variations of "yeah, uh huh, cool"
- Having something to say that's difficult to explain, so I distort the facts into something that gets across the same point but is quicker and easier to say, I did this despite the fact that I hated lying as a kid cause it made me feel weird
- Avoiding speaking all together
- Can't argue because I'm afraid I'll stutter or trip over my words, making me feel stupid and discredit me in the argument, like an irl typo
- Extreme lack of confidence with talking
- Was interrupted and ignored by everyone as a kid, my speech was painful to listen to
- In early childhood, I interrupted people constantly cause if I didn't, I'd forget what I was going to say
- Sometimes I purely speak nonsense, like the mental auto complete thing but for a full sentence, it's like Chat GPT in the sense that the sentence is linguistically coherent, but had nothing to do with what I was thinking about, there's no personal meaning behind it, my brain just generated it on while on autopilot based on what the most common thing people usually respond with. It's really rare, but it happens, and it's wild that that happens
Looking back at my old videos with my friends, I was utterly baffled by how hard it was for me to get basic points across, this video specifically is something else, I had to explain to my friends the point I was trying to make in the video, and it's a point I could've gotten across in one paragraph, and this video had more than one take too, I practiced speaking before recording, most of my other videos aren't this bad, but I think that's mostly cause they're edited, but this one's a pure, unfiltered look, into the way I used to speak.
https://youtu.be/Y1hEfEpmIeA?si=VR8xvn3N4oKGYJSG
2024.06.01 07:00 CryptoSkeptics Monthly Skeptics Discussion - June 2024
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2024.06.01 06:30 godlike_hikikomori What do you think Gramheart's motives are, and what he will gain from his Startaker Plan?
My most important prerequisite is that the Kai entry/ies really hone in on Gramheart's ambitions now that the mechanics of the Genesis have been fleshed out. He's lately been played as somewhat for a fool in the 2nd game, but I think he was just biding his time in order to prep for his Startaker Plan.
What does he want to gain from this "Startaker Plan" of his? How does the deuteroginist of the Calvard arc, his daughter Agnes, factor into his plans? Who are some of the other stakeholders involved in the President's master plan? MTSC? Verne? Heiyue? The Septian Church? Maybe even Ouroboros, though the Calvard gov't & them seem to be at odds with one another? Why is the Chruch so up in arms about people finding out about what's beyond the Zemurian continent, and could it be their possible ties to Ouroboros? Just who is the Grandmaster?
There are so many factors & factions at play here that it's very easy to lose sight on who will actually drive and contribute to the plot the most. I think it would be very wise for the developers to gradually drive the plot and uncover most of Zemuria's mysteries through the investigations that Kevin, Rean, Rufus, Van, or maybe even Alan Richard will carry out across multiple acts.
As for the unresolved questions about the factions themselves, not just about what's beyond Zemuria, I was personally a bit disappointed that the 2nd game spent too much time explaining the Genesis and the technological aspects, instead of delving into the factions' motives and backstories more. But, I hope they can also squeeze through more story development with regard to the various factions(MTSC, Heiyue, Ikaruga, Bracers, etc.) going forward in the Kai game(s?).
I can think of several reasons how each faction has a stake( whether opposed or in support) in Gramheart's big operations:
..... let's start with factions that are likely to SUPPORT Startaker
MTSC- Possibly more profit to be gained from the technology deployed and sold via contracts w/ the admin?
Verne- Somehow linked to Hamilton's desire to resolve the drought in Eastern Zemuria where she hails from?
Heiyue- Almost all of the members hail from East Zemuria, so it's likely they want to see their relatives not have to deal with the drought anymore. They may be banking on Gramheart's plan to help out their own people.
Ikaruga- Like Heiyue, they are Easterners so very similar reasons may apply to them. Also, being mercenaries, it's likely they will get paid BIG BUCKS by working with the President.
Gramheart & CID- I think his motives will be twofold here. One being very personal to him, like his daughter and his dead wife. And, the other, genuine desire to push Calvard to greater heights and be more influential by solving a major environmental crisis.
..... next, we have factions that are more likely to OPPOSE Startaker
The Church- They're obviously hiding something that's beyond Zemuria that they don't want rhe public to know, and this secrecy may be how they preserve their position of authority. It will be interesting to see how conflicted Kevin will be between his duty as a Gralsritter and just simply doing the right thing.
Ouroboros- It's been implied that they do have ties with the Church, and the Grandmaster could be using them as a front for their plans or to just keep some sort of delicate status quo.
.... Finally, we have factions that will be conflicted and in the GRAY AREA with regard to Startaker
Arkride Solutions Office- Van and his gang will likely try to get to the bottom of what's really going on, and do the right thing. It's clear that they will make the venture to Ored, and they will, I think, mostly be dealing with MTSC's machinations which is HQ'd there.
Rufus' Picnic Squad- Rufus will have personal motivation to try to redeem himself once and for all, and will have similar goals with that of Van.
The Bracers- It's not a guarantee that Joshua and Estelle will join in on the party this time around. But, bracers in general do go out of their way to investigate various phenomenon affecting civilians. It's just not in their duty to be bias towards the government or any other interest groups.
Rean & Some of Class 7- Rean will also try to uncover the grander scheme of things, but will also have personal interest in seeking out his old instructor Yun Ka fai. From there, I think he will try to figure out what really going on with the environmental crisis in the East. I think his team will likely roam around somewhere in the Eastern part of Calvard near Longlai and the Kunlun Range.
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As for what my theory/opinion is on Gramheart's motives, like I said, his motives are likely to be both in the national and in the personal interest. I place my bets on the likelihood that he has some sort of beef against the Church & Ouroboros, and that this could be due to their possible involvement in his wife's death. His wife could have been someone who knew "too much" about the Beyond, and was targeted by the Church for her discovery. This would make for an compelling revenge plot. His Startaker Plan could very well be a means to revealing to the public what his wife tried to reveal, and he also wants to eliminate Ouroboros at their Celestial Globe in the Beyond while taking this place for himself and for Calvard's national security interests. Also, with this operation being linked to helping the situation with the drought in Eastern Zemuria, this Plan will only enhance Calvard's soft power and influence if they do resolve it.
Meanwhile, through Ouroboro's perspective, it could be that the Grandmaster was trying to maintain some sort of delicate status quo; and that Startaker may disrupt this balance, thereby initiating the "End of the World" prophecy that was alluded in Cold Steel 4 and Reverie. But, of course, Gramheart doesn't care about this; and just wants to settle the score with the Church and Ouroboros. In my opinion, this sets up a really nuanced plot as Van, Rean, Rufus, and their crews juggle with the moral and philosophical dilemma while toeing the line between Ouroboros & Co. and Gramheart & Co.
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What does he want to gain from this "Startaker Plan" of his? How does the deuteroginist of the Calvard arc, his daughter Agnes, factor into his plans? Who are some of the other stakeholders involved in the President's master plan? MTSC? Verne? Heiyue? The Septian Church? Maybe even Ouroboros, though the Calvard gov't & them seem to be at odds with one another? Why is the Chruch so up in arms about people finding out about what's beyond the Zemurian continent, and could it be their possible ties to Ouroboros? Just who is the Grandmaster?
There are so many factors & factions at play here that it's very easy to lose sight on who will actually drive and contribute to the plot the most. I think it would be very wise for the developers to gradually drive the plot and uncover most of Zemuria's mysteries through the investigations that Kevin, Rean, Rufus, Van, or maybe even Alan Richard will carry out across multiple acts.
As for the unresolved questions about the factions themselves, not just about what's beyond Zemuria, I was personally a bit disappointed that the 2nd game spent too much time explaining the Genesis and the technological aspects, instead of delving into the factions' motives and backstories more. But, I hope they can also squeeze through more story development with regard to the various factions(MTSC, Heiyue, Ikaruga, Bracers, etc.) going forward in the Kai game(s?).
I can think of several reasons how each faction has a stake( whether opposed or in support) in Gramheart's big operations:
..... let's start with factions that are likely to SUPPORT Startaker
MTSC- Possibly more profit to be gained from the technology deployed and sold via contracts w/ the admin?
Verne- Somehow linked to Hamilton's desire to resolve the drought in Eastern Zemuria where she hails from?
Heiyue- Almost all of the members hail from East Zemuria, so it's likely they want to see their relatives not have to deal with the drought anymore. They may be banking on Gramheart's plan to help out their own people.
Ikaruga- Like Heiyue, they are Easterners so very similar reasons may apply to them. Also, being mercenaries, it's likely they will get paid BIG BUCKS by working with the President.
Gramheart & CID- I think his motives will be twofold here. One being very personal to him, like his daughter and his dead wife. And, the other, genuine desire to push Calvard to greater heights and be more influential by solving a major environmental crisis.
..... next, we have factions that are more likely to OPPOSE Startaker
The Church- They're obviously hiding something that's beyond Zemuria that they don't want rhe public to know, and this secrecy may be how they preserve their position of authority. It will be interesting to see how conflicted Kevin will be between his duty as a Gralsritter and just simply doing the right thing.
Ouroboros- It's been implied that they do have ties with the Church, and the Grandmaster could be using them as a front for their plans or to just keep some sort of delicate status quo.
.... Finally, we have factions that will be conflicted and in the GRAY AREA with regard to Startaker
Arkride Solutions Office- Van and his gang will likely try to get to the bottom of what's really going on, and do the right thing. It's clear that they will make the venture to Ored, and they will, I think, mostly be dealing with MTSC's machinations which is HQ'd there.
Rufus' Picnic Squad- Rufus will have personal motivation to try to redeem himself once and for all, and will have similar goals with that of Van.
The Bracers- It's not a guarantee that Joshua and Estelle will join in on the party this time around. But, bracers in general do go out of their way to investigate various phenomenon affecting civilians. It's just not in their duty to be bias towards the government or any other interest groups.
Rean & Some of Class 7- Rean will also try to uncover the grander scheme of things, but will also have personal interest in seeking out his old instructor Yun Ka fai. From there, I think he will try to figure out what really going on with the environmental crisis in the East. I think his team will likely roam around somewhere in the Eastern part of Calvard near Longlai and the Kunlun Range.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
As for what my theory/opinion is on Gramheart's motives, like I said, his motives are likely to be both in the national and in the personal interest. I place my bets on the likelihood that he has some sort of beef against the Church & Ouroboros, and that this could be due to their possible involvement in his wife's death. His wife could have been someone who knew "too much" about the Beyond, and was targeted by the Church for her discovery. This would make for an compelling revenge plot. His Startaker Plan could very well be a means to revealing to the public what his wife tried to reveal, and he also wants to eliminate Ouroboros at their Celestial Globe in the Beyond while taking this place for himself and for Calvard's national security interests. Also, with this operation being linked to helping the situation with the drought in Eastern Zemuria, this Plan will only enhance Calvard's soft power and influence if they do resolve it.
Meanwhile, through Ouroboro's perspective, it could be that the Grandmaster was trying to maintain some sort of delicate status quo; and that Startaker may disrupt this balance, thereby initiating the "End of the World" prophecy that was alluded in Cold Steel 4 and Reverie. But, of course, Gramheart doesn't care about this; and just wants to settle the score with the Church and Ouroboros. In my opinion, this sets up a really nuanced plot as Van, Rean, Rufus, and their crews juggle with the moral and philosophical dilemma while toeing the line between Ouroboros & Co. and Gramheart & Co.
2024.06.01 06:27 TCAS_2003 Storm Chasing (Update)
 | Previously on “Storm Chasing in a Model S” (I hope this shows up correctly) submitted by TCAS_2003 to TeslaLounge [link] [comments] I’ve been storm chasing for about two months now, I have had to keep it local due to work schedule and the lack of disposable income to blow on trips to the plains every few days but it’s been an active year farther east than normal too, and I’ve taken advantage of that. I have gone on four different storm chases and haven’t destroyed my car (2013 Model S 85) yet, or damaged her so that’s a plus, but I haven’t seen a tornado yet. I’ve noticed that chasing in an EV presents a unique problem in that, once I need to charge, the chase is basically over, and I do have limited range compared to newer Tesla’s. Another unique challenge is not getting struck by lightning because I do not want to find out what that’ll do to my car, and I certainly can’t afford to find out, so I’ve been extra cautious. It hasn’t been overly awful, having the giant screen is nice so I can have navigation easily (just hold in the direction I need to go and it’ll tell me how to get there) and I’ll put up the NWS SPC site so I can keep tabs on storms easily while filming on my phone. If I do have to venture out I know I can do that easily by just throwing a mattress in the back and putting the back seats down. Now to end the ramble. Storm chasing in my car is the only way I’m able to do this right now, and with that in mind it’s been pretty great, with proper planning I can get to a good target area with plenty of time and battery, and free supercharging is amazing for doing this on a budget, but I have to say that if you do want to chase, just get an ICE vehicle. Unfortunately, despite the amazing leaps in technology to make these awesome EV’s, they can’t beat ICE and probably won’t for a long time. TL;DR: Chasing in my 2013 MS85 has been amazing but if you are wanting to chase, just go ICE. Acronyms: EV: Electric Vehicle NWS: National Weather Service SPC: Storm Prediction Center ICE: Internal Combustion Engine MS85: Model S 85, my car type Note: I’m going to throw some photos I’ve gotten on my chasing adventures. |